page_title: Jerry Dias
hierarchical_section_title: Jerry Dias
caption_attribution_description: Unifor president Jerry Dias addressing the Ontario Federation of Labour convention on November 26, 2013
context_page_description: Jerome P. Dias, Jr. is a Canadian trade unionist, who was elected the first president of the Unifor union, a merger between the Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, on August 31, 2013.
  The son of Jerry Dias, Sr., a worker at de Havilland's facilities in Downsview who led the plant's United Auto Workers local from 1967 to 1978, Dias pursued studies at York University before dropping out and taking a job at the plant, and later became president of the union local himself in 1987. He later became a staff representative for the Canadian Auto Workers' national office in 1993; in 2007, he became a senior assistant to CAW presidents Buzz Hargrove and Ken Lewenza, Sr. Jerry has been active in the labour movement for nearly four decades.
context_section_description: Jerome P. Dias, Jr. (born October 10, 1958) is a Canadian trade unionist, who was elected the first president of the Unifor union, a merger between the Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, on August 31, 2013.
  The son of Jerry Dias, Sr., a worker at de Havilland's facilities in Downsview who led the plant's United Auto Workers local from 1967 to 1978, Dias pursued studies at York University before dropping out and taking a job at the plant, and later became president of the union local himself in 1987. He later became a staff representative for the Canadian Auto Workers' national office in 1993; in 2007, he became a senior assistant to CAW presidents Buzz Hargrove and Ken Lewenza, Sr.  Jerry has been active in the labour movement for nearly four decades.
caption: Dias at the 2013 Ontario Federation of Labour convention
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