Wayne E. Hanley
Executive Vice President
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Wayne E. Hanley has been an activist and a champion of workers’ rights for more than three decades. He is National President of UFCW Canada, one of Canada’s largest private sector unions with more than 240,000 members. Wayne is also one of the three Executive Vice Presidents of the UFCW, and a member of the UFCW International Executive Committee led by International President Hansen.
Wayne became a rank-and-file UFCW Canada member and activist in 1976 as a teenage customer service clerk at a London, Ontario supermarket. Over the next eight years, he went on to become a steward and a member of his local union’s executive board. In 1984, after graduating from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Science degree, Wayne joined the staff at UFCW Canada Local 175, where over the next six years he worked as an organizer, servicing representative, pay equity coordinator, and grievance chairperson. In 1990, Wayne was appointed Region Director, in 1992 was elected Secretary-Treasurer, and in 1999 elected President of UFCW Canada Local 175 which under his leadership grew to become one of the largest local unions in the UFCW, with over 47,000 members.
In April 2006 Wayne Hanley was elected as National President of UFCW Canada by the UFCW Canada National Council, and as President of the National Council in 2007. Under Wayne Hanley’s direction, the UFCW Canada National Office provides strategic orientation and support to UFCW Canada’s local union efforts in servicing and training members, growing the union, reaching out to new Canadians, and extending the campaign for labour rights and better workplace protections through political and lobbying efforts, as well as through the courts.
In addition to his UFCW Canada and International roles, Hanley also sits as a trustee on numerous pension, health and welfare plans; on the Board of Directors of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada; and as a member of the Canadian Textiles Human Resources Council.
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