Ron Hodgins' union background spans 30 years from his early days as an elected officer with the Canadian Paperworkers Union (now the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union) in Northern Ontario and later Hinton, Alberta.
During his eventful career in labour relations, Hodgins created a union from the ground up called the Health Care Employees Union and has been involved in all facets of labour relations, including negotiating contracts, conducting arbitrations, organizing and co-ordinating strikes.

Hodgins is also a graduate of the Labour College of Canada.
He also had the opportunity, by way of scholarship, to study labour relations in Europe for approximately one year and worked extensively with European unions during that time.

As AUPE’s Executive Director, Hodgins is responsible for the supervision of the union’s approximately 105 staff members and works with AUPE’s management team and staff on a daily basis.

Hodgins is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys camping, fishing and hunting in the great outdoors, although he reports that the animals seem to win more than he does.

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