CLC elects new executive

VANCOUVER – The delegates attending the 23rd Convention of the Canadian Labour Congress earlier this month in Vancouver have chosen a new executive for the CLC.

"Canadian labour gave a new and exciting mandate to a new leadership team," said Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress.

"The 3,300 delegates on the Convention floor on this election day clearly want our Canadian labour movement, with the strength of two-and-a-half million members and their families, to be a central and powerful political force in this country."

"We will work on organizing new workers, on national bargaining goals and strategies, on equity issues, on eradicating poverty through international solidarity."

Ken Georgetti won re-election as president without challenge. The other executive positions were hotly contested.

The new Executive of the Canadian Labour Congress:

President: Ken Georgetti who is starting his second mandate as president. Secretary-Treasurer: Hassan Yussuff, who was Executive-Vice President of the Canadian Labour Congress for three years.

Executive Vice-President: Barbara Byers who has achieved national prominence in the trade union movement as president of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour since 1988.

Executive Vice-President: Marie Clarke Walker is a Vice-President of the 14,000-member strong CUPE 4400, representing Toronto education workers.

The Canadian Labour Congress, the national voice of the labour movement, represents 2.5 million Canadian workers. The CLC brings together the majority of Canada’s national and international unions along with the provincial federations of labour and 137 district labour councils.