[news] Canadian Labour Congress has First Contested Election in a Decade

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John Baglow | Monday, June 06, 2005 For the first time in more than a decade, an incumbent President of the Canadian Labour Congress will face opposition. Taking on Ken Georgetti at the upcoming CLC Convention is Carol Wall, a long-time African-Canadian labour activist and currently a CLC Vice-President representing workers of colour.... With more than two decades of hands-on labour experience, shop-floor, bargaining and pay equity work for the Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild; National Representative for the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada in 1995; CEPs first Human Rights Director; and now a national negotiator for the Public Service Alliance of Canada, Wall is no starry-eyed neophyte. A realist, she knows that she is fighting an uphill battle, but she is determined to force a debate on the direction of the CLC. Rhetoric, says Wall, needs to be matched by action.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/11/201532/133