Shirley Geraldine Edwina Carr OC OOnt (May 1929 – June 24, 2010) was a Canadian union leader who was the first woman president of Canada's largest labour organization, the Canadian Labour Congress.
Carr first became active in the labour movement in 1960, when she was employed by the City of Niagara Falls and a member of CUPE Local 133, then in 1970, she became an employee of the Regional Municipality of Niagara and the founding President of CUPE Local 1287.
She became general vice-president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in 1969, and also served as president of CUPE's Ontario Division between 1972 and 1974.
[citation needed] As president of the CLC, she began Canadian labour's campaign against the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, a deal promoted by then-prime minister Brian Mulroney and the late US president Ronald Reagan and signed in 1988.
[citation needed] As the first female president of Canada's largest labour federation, Carr was awarded numerous honours.