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Desmond McgrathFather Desmond (Des) McGrath is a Newfoundland and Labrador Catholic priest, trade union organiser and candidate for the New Democratic Party of Canada in the 2004 federal election. In the late 1960s, McGrath parish consisted mostly of fishermen. He became concerned with their plight. Fishermen at that time were getting just two-and-a-half cents a pound for their catch and lived off credit supplied by merchants rarely having a season that saw them climb out of debt. McGrath felt that the only way for fishemen to improve their situation was if they formed a union so McGrath joined forces with St. John's lawyer Richard Cashin to create and build the Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union which today represents not only fishing people, but plant workers and many others and, with over 20,000 members is the biggest private-sector union in Newfoundland. In the late 1980s, McGrath started setting up adult education centres across the province which provided key retraining when the cod fishery collapsed a few years later McGrath, Desmond McGrath, Desmond
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