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| Karen Hadley |
GCIU Vice Pres. Duncan K. Brown, who worked with Hadley on a printing industry study, said: "Karen will be sorely missed by all her friends and colleagues. She was a vibrant person, a gifted analyst, and a dedicated friend to the GCIU and workers everywhere."
Hadley worked with the GCIU in Canada in the mid-1990s on a study of technological changes in the printing industry under a grant from Ontario's Technological Adjustment Research Programme (TARP).
For that project, Hadley produced a series of three publications that detailed the situation of the industry and its workers at that time and their future. The publications were: "Restructuring in the 90s: Fewer People Working Faster"; "Total Quality Management: The Moore Plant in Fergus"; and "Riding the Digital Revolution: Unions Can Survive and Thrive."
Hadley worked with the Canadian Auto Workers-McMaster Labour Studies program as a researcher, writer and program developer. She contributed to the CAW study: "No Power Greater: How Autoworkers in Canada Built a Union and Made History."
Her 2001 report for the National Action Committee on the Status of Women and the CSJ Foundation on gender inequality in Canada, "And We Still Ain't Satisfied," opened a national dialogue on women's wages and access to jobs.
In that study, Hadley found that women in Canada earn only 60 percent of what men earn in the same jobs unless they belong to a union. Women in full-time unionized positions make up to 83 percent of men's salaries, she found. She said factors contributing to the smaller gap in union workplaces include greater opportunities to rise through the ranks at work because of the benefits of job security, wage protection, and child care.
Hadley is survived by her husband Bruce Roberts.
In lieu of flowers at the memorial service, the family said those who wished could donate to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation or a charity of their choice.
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