Citizens for a Livable Cranbrook Society provides grassroots leadership and an inclusive process, with a voice for all community members, to ensure that our community grows and develops in a way that incorporates an environmental ethic, offers a range of housing and transportation choices, encourages a vibrant and cultural life and supports sustainable, meaningful employment and business opportunities.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

President of the United Steelworkers To Speak in Cranbrook, April 21st


Leo Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers is speaking in Cranbrook on Thursday, April 21 from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm at a luncheon at the Heritage Inn Club room.  The fee is $25.00 per person.  Please rsvp to Veronica at 250-426-4871.

Mr. Gerard is from Sudbury, Ontario.  He has many outstanding achievements and only a couple are mentioned here thanks to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Gerard. 

While USW Secretary-Treasurer he instituted a number of important administrative, cost-saving and revenue-generating initiatives and restructured member and local union servicing.  He returned to Laurentian University and received a bachelor’s degree in economics and politics.  The university awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1994. 

He has adopted a global perspective on unionization. In 2002 Mr. Gerard chaired the Second World Rubber Industries Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  He is a member of two federal government commissions, the U.S.-China China Economic and Security Review Commission and the National Commission on Energy Policy.  He is a founding board member of the Apollo Alliance, a non-profit public policy initiative for creating good jobs in pursuit of energy independence.

This promises to be an interesting and powerful session.


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