{"id":14087,"count":1,"description":"Robert \"Bob\" White, OC (born April 28, 1935 in Upper Lands, Northern Ireland) is a prominent leader in the Canadian trade union and labour movement. Born in Northern Ireland, he emigrated with his family to Canada at age 13, settling in Woodstock, Ontario.\nWhite began working at age 15 (Hay & Co.) and within a year he had already participated in a strike, his first pro-labour activity. Subsequently, White became fully immersed in the Canadian labour movement as a union organizer and then by 1959 president of Local 636 of the United Auto Workers (U.A.W.), a union based in the United States, that at the time had a large membership in Canadian industry (particularly in automobile manufacturing). In 1960 White was appointed as international representative of the U.A.W. and assigned to organizing duties within Canada. 1972 saw White named as administrative assistant to the director of the National Office of the U.A.W. White succeeded Dennis McDermott as Canadian Director of the UAW in 1978...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/bob-white\/","name":"Bob White","slug":"bob-white","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/14087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=14087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}