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The role of the Left in unions, women’s activism, and the rise of industrial unions in the post-World War II decades have been the subject of valuable academic scrutiny. This article seeks to add to our understanding of these topics by looking at the role that one prominent activist—Al Campbell—played in building UAW/CAW Local 27 from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Campbell strongly advocated an independent Canadian autoworkers’ union, supported women’s activism, and was instrumental in helping expand a major composite local in the union. I argue in this article that, in order to understand the nature of the post-war Canadian labour movement, we need to devote greater attention to the role of devoted leftists in building local unions. ost-World War II North American labour movements have been the subject of much academic study. The role of women, the impact of race, electoral politics, and deindustrialization are only a few of the themes that have been examined by historians, political scientists, and sociologists. The labour studies community has also benefited from work done on places such as Hamilton, Toronto, Detroit, and other cities across the United States and Canada. This article seeks to expand our understanding of local unions and left-wing volunteer activists in the post-war period by looking at the life of one prominent activist in an autoworkers union local from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. UAW/CAW Local 27 in London, Ontario is a composite local that organized eleven bargaining units during the 1950s and 1960s. Considering Al Campbell’s activism in Local 27 adds to the scholarship on the role of the Left in post-war unions, interaction between national union offices and locals, the impact of the Cold War on local unions, and the importance of local union activists who were willing to give freely of their time to the labour movement. P

Al Campbell and the Left: Building UAW/CAW Local 27