{"id":3932,"date":"2010-06-29T10:34:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T15:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2011-03-28T10:30:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T15:30:37","slug":"honorary-degree-holder-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/06\/honorary-degree-holder-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Honorary degree holder was advocate for labour, women&#8217;s rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3931\" style=\"width: 173px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3931\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3931\" title=\"Shirley Carr\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/carr-shirley-1252.jpg\" alt=\"Shirley Carr\" width=\"163\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Carr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Shirley Carr, labour activist and recipient of an honorary degree from Brock University, has died.<\/p>\n<p>Carr, of Niagara Falls, was the first female president of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). She led the 2.3-million member congress from 1986 to 1992 after serving 12 years prior as its executive vice-president.<\/p>\n<p>She was active at the international level as well, including receiving Venezuela&#8217;s prestigious Order of Diego de Losada, First Class in 1992 for her work against apartheid and in defending trade union rights around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShirley moved women\u2019s rights to the top of the labour agenda and she was a determined opponent of apartheid,\u201d CLC president Ken Georgetti said on the union&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>Carr received an honorary degree from Brock in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>She died on June 24 in Niagara Falls at age 81.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nupge.ca\/content\/3359\/shirley-carr-first-woman-president-clc-dies-81\" target=\"_blank\">Shirley Carr, first woman CLC president, dies at 81<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/morganfuneralhomes.frontrunnerpro.com\/runtime\/3811\/runtime.php?SiteId=3811&amp;NavigatorId=59844&amp;op=tributeObituary&amp;viewOpt=dpaneOnly&amp;ItemId=478405&amp;LinkId=103\">Book of Memories for Shirley Carr at Morgan Funeral Homes<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/money\/story\/2010\/06\/28\/shirley-carr-dies.html\" target=\"_blank\">CBC News \u2014 Labour pioneer Shirley Carr dies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shirley Carr was a labour activist and honorary degree recipient in 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8947,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions\/8947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}