Jerry Dias

Jerry Dias

Dias addressing the 2013 Ontario Federation of Labour convention
1st President of Unifor
Assumed office
August 31, 2013
President of Canadian Auto Workers Local 112
In office
1987–1993
Personal details
Born (1958-10-10) October 10, 1958
Toronto, Ontario
Parents Jerry Dias, Sr.[1]
Residence Milton, Ontario

Jerome P. Dias, Jr.[2] is a Canadian trade unionist, who was elected the first president of the new Unifor union, a merger between the Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, on August 31, 2013.[3]

The son of Jerry Dias, Sr., a worker at de Havilland's facilities in Downsview who led the plant's United Auto Workers local from 1967 to 1978,[4] Dias pursued studies at York University before dropping out to take a job at the plant, and later became president of the union local himself in 1987.[1] He later became a staff representative for the Canadian Auto Workers' national office in 1993;[1] in 2007, he became a senior assistant to CAW presidents Buzz Hargrove and Ken Lewenza, Sr.[4] In 2016, media reported he donated to contoversial Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch, and was called on to step down from his leadership by some union members.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Jerry Dias: The new face of labour in Canada". Toronto Star, August 30, 2013.
  2. ↑ http://ipolitics.ca/2016/11/01/union-leader-jerry-dias-among-donors-to-leitch-campaign/
  3. ↑ "CAW's Jerry Dias first president of Unifor, merger of CAW and CEP". CTV News, August 31, 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Jerry Dias brings decades of front-line experience in bid to lead Canada's new superunion". The Globe and Mail, August 8, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Dias 'has to explain' donation to Leitch: Mulcair". iPolitics. Retrieved 2016-11-06.
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