Bob White is an important leader in the Canadian trade union and labour movement. He was born in Upper Lands, Northern Ireland, on April 28 1935, and emigrated to Canada at age 13, settling in Woodstock, Ontario. Wikipedia
This illustrated history of the Canadian Auto Workers provides a profile of the CAW as well as the labour and social movements it helped shape. Part of the U.S. based United Auto Workers for fifty years, the CAW split from the UAW in 1985 to become the d www.caw.ca/whoweare/ourhistory/cawhistory/index.html
The response of Bob White, who had replaced McDermott as the Canadian Director in 1978, was to urge direct action. www.caw.ca/whoweare/ourhistory/gindin_index.asp
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Bob White. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_White
