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Dennis McDermott (November 3, 1922 - February 13, 2003) was a Canadian trade unionist, Canadian Director of the United Auto Workers from 1968 to 1978 and president of the Canadian Labour Congress from 1978 to 1986. The United Auto Workers (UAW), officially the United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America International Union, is one of the largest labor unions in North America, with more than 700,000 members in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico organized into approximately 950 union locals. ...
The Canadian Labour Congress, or CLC (in French le Congrès du travail du Canada or CTC) is the central labour body in Canada to which most Canadian labour unions are affiliated. ...
Born in Portsmouth, England, McDermott immigrated to Canada in 1948 and settled in Toronto where he worked as an assembler and welder at the Massey-Harris plant.[1] He became a full time organizer for the United Auto Workers in Canada (UAW) in 1954.[2] He was elected Canadian Director of the UAW in 1968 and became an international vice-president of the union in 1970. This article is about the English city of Portsmouth. ...
Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...
The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) (properly the National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada) is one of Canadas largest and highest profile trade unions. ...
1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ...
As leader of the Canadian UAW he also became a vice-president of the Canadian Labour Congress. He left the UAW in 1978 to become president of the CLC. The Canadian Labour Congress, or CLC (in French le Congrès du travail du Canada or CTC) is the central labour body in Canada to which most Canadian labour unions are affiliated. ...
McDermott was a social activist and civil libertarian and joined the Joint Labour Committee to Combat Racial Intolerance soon after arriving in Canada working with the committee to lobby for the enactment of Ontario's first Human Rights Code. He would later serve on the executive of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.[1] He led the Canadian UAW to support the California grape boycott in the 1960s and 1970s.[3] The Canadian Civil Liberties Association or CCLA, is a non-governmental organization in Canada that is devoted to the defense of civil liberties and civil rights. ...
As CLC president, McDermott led a campaign against wage controls being implemented by the government of Pierre Trudeau in the early 1980s. Under McDermott, the CLC organized a 100,000 person protest against the federal Liberal governent's economic policies in 1981.[3] In economics, incomes policies are wage and price controls used to fight inflation. ...
For other uses, see Pierre Elliott Trudeau (disambiguation). ...
Following his term as CLC president, McDermott was appointed Canada's amabassador to Ireland in 1986 and served in that position until 1989. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
McDermott was strong supporter of the New Democratic Party and organized the CLC to operate a political action program in support of the NDP in the 1979 federal election.[1] The New Democratic Party (NDP; Nouveau Parti démocratique in French) is a political party in Canada with a progressive social democratic philosophy that contests elections at both the federal and provincial levels. ...
The House of Commons after the 1979 election The Canadian federal election of 1979 was held on May 22, 1979 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ...
For other people named Joseph Morris, see Joseph Morris. ...
The Canadian Labour Congress, or CLC (in French le Congrès du travail du Canada or CTC) is the central labour body in Canada to which most Canadian labour unions are affiliated. ...
1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Shirley G.E. Carr is a Canadian union leader who was the the first woman president of Canadas largest labour organization, the Canadian Labour Congress. ...
The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) (properly the National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada) is one of Canadas largest and highest profile trade unions. ...
Binomial name Colinus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758) The Bobwhite Quail or Northern Bobwhite, Colinus virginianus, is a ground_dwelling bird native to North America. ...
References
- ^ a b c "Memorial Service for Dennis McDermott", Canadian Labour Congress, March 5, 2003 (accessed 3 November 2006).
- ^ "McDermott, Dennis", The Canadian Encyclopedia (accessed 3 November 2006).
- ^ a b "Former CLC president Dennis McDermott dies at 80", National Union of Public and General Employees, 14 February 2003 (accessed 3 November 2006).
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