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Several Unifor members from across Canada took part in the recent Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference (GGCLC), a two-week leadership development session for future business, labour, public sector and community leaders.
“The GGCLC is a very intense session designed to specifically provide insight and education to develop better leaders for our country,” said Mark Mathewson, President of Local 848 and a member of the National Executive Board.
Mathewson was one of the participants in the conference along with Billy O’Neill from Local 707, Kelly Rouche and Amy Huziak from CULR-1, Unifor Telecommunications Director Naureen Rizvi, Christine Maclin from Local 195, Bruce Farad from Local 350, Chad Stroud from Local 2182 and Ricardo de Menezes from Local 777.
In all, 250 people took part in the 15-day conference, which involved fellow unionist as well as business, academia, government representatives. Participants were formed into groups and sent to communities across Canada to learn local perspectives on various issues, as well as that of others on their teams from different walks of life.
The goal is to make them better leaders by helping them see issues form more than one perspective.
