Peggy Nash Author

Peggy Nash is the executive director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. She was the former senior negotiator in the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), where she had the privilege of working with many groundbreaking union women from the 1980s to 2011. She led the CAW’s Women’s Department for many years and initiated innovative leadership programs. She was the first labour woman to lead national auto bargaining. Nash later became an NDP Member of Parliament, a lecturer in politics at Toronto Metropolitan University, and an author. Nash was named to the Order of Canada for her work in the union and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Brock University. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Julie White is the former long-time Director of the CAW-Unifor Women’s Department. She held many leadership positions in her local union including becoming the first woman president of CAW Local 27. She was elected to the union’s National Executive Board and was later appointed Director of the CAW Women’s Department. In this role, White was responsible for the union’s equity campaigns, education, mobilization, and workplace advocacy. She advocated for reproductive rights, childcare, the need for gun control legislation, and other measures to end gender-based violence. She lives in London, Ontario.