Bob Wages
American labor union leader
About Bob Wages
Born 1949.
Robert E. "Bob" Wages (born August 18, 1949) is an American former labor union leader.
Born in Kansas City, Kansas, Wages studied at the University of Kansas. He then followed his father in working at a Phillips Petroleum Company refinery, and joined the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers' International Union (OCAW). During this period, he studied law part-time at the University of Missouri. He graduated in 1975 and began working as an attorney for the city of Raymore, Missouri, then became an assistant legal counsel for OCAW.
In 1981, Wages was appointed as the administrative assistant to the president of OCAW, and then at the end of the year, he was appointed as a vice-president of the union. He was elected to the post on an ongoing basis in 1985, and re-elected in 1988. In 1991, he was elected as president of the union, and in 1995 he was additionally elected as a vice-president of the AFL-CIO.
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