The Truth about the '37 Oshawa GM Strike - Tony Leah

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Biographie:
Tony Leah is a long-time union activist with experience in bargaining, shop-floor representation, labor education, and political mobilization. A maintenance and construction welder with GM, Oshawa for nearly 40 years, he has held many positions within the Auto Workers Union at both Oshawa Local 222 and on the Canadian national level. Editor and author of many articles on labor history and activities, Tony Leah holds an MA in Labor Studies from McMaster University. He lives in Toronto....

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Tony Leah is a long-time union activist with experience in bargaining, shop-floor representation, labour education, and political mobilization. A maintenance and construction welder with GM, Oshawa for nearly 40 years, he has held many positions within the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW)/Unifor at both Oshawa Local 222 and on the national level. In the 1996 strike against GM he played a key role in advocating and organizing the occupation of a key GM plant that resulted in winning the strike. And in 1998, Brother Leah led an occupation of the CAW national office to ensure members he represented would not be abandoned and unjustly laid off. From 2000 to 2019, he held responsibility for union education programs with the CAW/Unifor. He also initiated and led the Green Jobs Oshawa campaign that proposed nationalizing the GM Oshawa plant and converting it to the production of battery electric vehicles for government fleets, when GM announced the end of vehicle production there in 2019. Brother Leah is still an active member of his union's Retired Workers Chapter. Editor and author of many articles on labour history and activities, Tony Leah holds an MA in Labour Studies from McMaster University. He lives in Toronto....