Dick Martin (trade unionist)

Richard Allan "Dick" Martin (1944 – October 2001) was a Canadian trade unionist.

He joined the United Steelworkers, and won election as president of his union local.

He used the post to launch an occupational health clinic, the first of its kind in Canada.

[1][2] In 1984, Martin was elected as executive vice president of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), in which role he supported the new National Day of Mourning for workers killed while on the job.

From 1997, he also served as president of the ICFTU Inter American Regional Organisation of Workers.