Helene Davis-Whyte (born 1956) is a Jamaican trade union activist and the general secretary of the Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers (JALGO), which represents 5,000 workers in local and national government and quasi-government agencies in Jamaica.
But when a new mayor promised to lay off members of her department, she and other workers decided to ask for JALGO's assistance.
Her co-workers were so impressed with her representation of their issues that they elected her a delegate to JALGO, and she became increasingly involved in union work.
[2] During her tenure as union leader, Davis-Whyte has opposed the flexible work-week for reducing workers' hours,[3] pushed for reorganization of public welfare services,[4] and urged a collaborative approach to policy making in which unions would participate in commissions, boards and advisory bodies in order to alleviate the impact of austerity measures.
[1] She received a Bachelor of Science degree in human resource management from the University College of the Caribbean (UCC)[1] in 2006.