Hassan Yussuff is one of Canada’s most experienced labour leaders. As the past President of the Canadian Labour Congress, he was the first person of colour to lead Canada’s union movement. In 1999, he was elected to Executive Vice-President of Canadian Labour Congress, and went on to be elected as Secretary-Treasurer for three terms, before being elected President in 2014 and re-elected in this role in 2017 for this central labor body in Canada.
Mr. Yussuff is a prominent international activist. In 2016, he was elected for his second term as President of the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas. He was also a member of the Executive Bureau and General Council of the International Trade Union Confederation and a member of the Ministerial Council of the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. He was recently appointed to the Net-Zero Advisory Body by the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change.
Mr. Yussuff and the Canadian Labour Congress, with their tripartite partners, are recipients of the 2021 Canadian Freedom of Association Award for their instrumental collaboration in Canada’s 2017 ratification of the International Labour Organization’s Convention No. 98.
