The Ontario Federation of Labour is a federation of

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s in the

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Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Ca ...

. The original OFL was established by the Canadian Congress of Labour in 1944. It was merged with the rival

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in 1957 (now considered the modern OFL's founding date), one year after the merger of the CCL and the Trades and Labour Congress (the OPFL's parent federation). It is now the provincial federation of the

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. Elroy Robson was the original OFL's first president and William Sefton was its first secretary-treasurer. Policy conventions are held every two years. Today, the federation represents 700,000 workers who belong to its affiliated trade unions.

Officers of the OFL since 1957

Presidents

*Cleve Kidd (1957–1958) *David Archer (1958–1976) * Cliff Pilkey (1976–1986) *Gord Wilson (1986–1997) *Wayne Samuelson (1997–2009) *

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(2009–2015) *Chris Buckley (2015–2019) *Patty Coates (2019–present)

Secretary-Treasurer

*Douglas Hamilton (1957–1970) *Terry Meagher (1970–1984) *Wally Majesky (1984–1986) *Sean O'Flynn (1986–1988) *Julie Davis (1988–1995) *Ethel Birkett-LaValley (1995–2005) *Irene Harris (2005–2009) *Marie Kelly (2009–2011) *Nancy Hutchison (2011–2015) *Patty Coates (2015-2019) *Ahmad Gaied (2019–present)

Executive Vice-Presidents

*Julie Davis (1986–1988) *Ken Signoretti (1988–1997) *Irene Harris (1997–2005) *Terry Downey (2005–2011) *Irwin Nanda (2011–2015) *Ahmad Gaied (2015-2019) *Janice Folk-Dawson (2019–Present)

References

External links

OFL home page
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