Leo Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers is speaking in Cranbrook on Thursday, April 21 from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm at a luncheon at the Heritage Inn Club room. The fee is $25.00 per person. Please rsvp to Veronica at 250-426-4871.
Mr. Gerard is from Sudbury, Ontario. He has many outstanding achievements and only a couple are mentioned here thanks to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Gerard.
While USW Secretary-Treasurer he instituted a number of important administrative, cost-saving and revenue-generating initiatives and restructured member and local union servicing. He returned to Laurentian University and received a bachelor’s degree in economics and politics. The university awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1994.
He has adopted a global perspective on unionization. In 2002 Mr. Gerard chaired the Second World Rubber Industries Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is a member of two federal government commissions, the U.S.-China China Economic and Security Review Commission and the National Commission on Energy Policy. He is a founding board member of the Apollo Alliance, a non-profit public policy initiative for creating good jobs in pursuit of energy independence.
This promises to be an interesting and powerful session.
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