Cliff Pilkey

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Clifford George (Cliff) Pilkey (born 1928) is a former Canadian politician and trade union leader.

Pilkey was an autoworker and United Auto Workers leader in Oshawa's Local 222 before being elected to the Ontario legislature as the Ontario New Democratic Party MPP for Oshawa in the 1967 provincial election. He served one term before being defeated in the 1971 provincial election.

In 1976, he was elected president of the Ontario Federation of Labour. He retired from the OFL in 1986.

His son, Allan Pilkey, was NDP MPP for Oshawa from 1990 to 1995.