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EVP Wayne Hanley
Wayne E. Hanley
Executive Vice President
Wayne Hanley, the current elected president of Local 175 of the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Canada and UFCW Canada National Director, is a long-time champion of worker's rights.
After becoming a member of Local 175 in 1976 as a part-time grocery clerk at Miracle Food Mart (now A&P), Wayne became very active in the Union and was a Union Steward by 1977. The Local 175 membership elected Wayne as a Local Union Trustee in 1983. In 1984, after graduating from the University of Toronto with a Bachelors of Science degree, the Local hired him as a union organizer.
Since that time, he has been appointed to many positions including Union Rep in 1986, Local Union Pay Equity Coordinator in 1987, A&P Grievance Chair in 1988 and Director of the Central Region in 1990 before being elected as Secretary-Treasurer in 1992.
Wayne became President of Local 175 in 1999 and was re-elected by the members as President in 2000. In the fall of 2004, the membership showed their support for his great work and leadership by electing him to another four-year term as President of the Local.
Since 1999, his leadership of Local 175 has brought a great growth in membership, an excellent servicing record, record-breaking fundraising efforts for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada (LLSC) and many firsts in the area of Labour Education. The Training & Education department continues to grow exponentially under President Hanley's guidance. More than 8,000 members took part in union-provided courses in 2005.
The last several years of fundraising have been record-breaking ones. President Hanley successfully led the Local to raise a total of $350,000 for the LLSC in 2006.
In 2006, President Hanley launched the Community Action Network (CAN), an initiative of Local 175. Through the funding of, and involvement with, cultural, community and educational projects, President Hanley hopes to unite the many members of Locals 175
& 633 through diversity. His commitment to community continues as Vice-President of the Oakville Little League Baseball organization.
Director Hanley is very active in provincial and international labour relations. He holds additional positions as UFCW Ontario Provincial Council President, UFCW Canada National Council Executive Board Vice-President, and International Executive Vice President of United Food and Commercial Workers International union (UFCW) on the five-member UFCW International Executive Committee led by UFCW International President Joe Hansen.
Wayne continues to sit as a Trustee on numerous Pension and Health and Welfare plans, on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Food Industry Council and the Textile Human Resources Council. In 2000, the Ontario Minister of Labour appointed President Hanley to a position on the Labour-Management Advisory Committee.
