Hassan Yussuff

Hassan Yussuff
Yussuff in 2014
8th President of the Canadian Labour Congress
Incumbent
Assumed office 2014
Preceded by	Ken Georgetti
2nd President of the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas
Incumbent
Assumed office April 20, 2012
Preceded by	Linda Chavez-Thompson
Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress
In office 2002–2014
Succeeded by	Barb Byers
Personal details
Born	Guyana
Occupation	Heavy truck mechanic, trade unionist

Hassan Yussuff is a Canadian labour leader and president of the Canadian Labour Congress.

Yussuff emigrated to Canada from Guyana as a young man to work as a heavy truck mechanic^[1] and soon found employment on the plant floor of CanCar, an automotive parts manufacturer, in Toronto^[2] where he became a member of the Canadian Auto Workers. Within a year, he was elected plant chairperson of Local 252 of the Canadian Auto Workers and later was elected plant chairman of the General Motors Truck Centre. He later served as a staff representative in the organizing and service departments before being appointed as Director of the CAW Human Rights Department. As such, Yussuff joined the CLC’s Executive Council and then co-chaired the CLC Human Rights Committee.^[3]

In 1999, he was elected Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Labour Congress and was then elected Secretary-Treasurer in 2002.^[4] He remained in that position until 2014 when he challenged incumbent CLC President Ken Georgetti, defeating him by 40 votes at the CLC's May 2014 convention to become CLC president,^[4] and the first person to unseat an incumbent CLC president.^[5] On April 20, 2012, Yussuff was elected to a four-year term as President of the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA).^[6][7]

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