Robert E. "Bob" Wages (born August 18, 1949) is an American former labor union leader.
He then followed his father in working at a Phillips Petroleum Company refinery, and joined the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers' International Union (OCAW).
He graduated in 1975 and began working as an attorney for the city of Raymore, Missouri, then became an assistant legal counsel for OCAW.
[1][2][3] As leader of OCAW, Wages negotiated a merger which formed the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union, which was completed in 1999.
He retired in 2001, but agreed to continue leading the union's negotiations on agreements in the oil industry, which were concluded in August 2002.