{{Short description|Canadian library technician and trade unionist}}
'''Yolanda McClean''' is a Canadian library technician and trade unionist. Since 2021, She has been the Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in Ontario, which is the largest union in the province. She is also the Executive Vice-president at the Ontario Federation of Labour. She is the first Black Canadian to hold either position. She began her career in 1984 as a library technician in the Toronto District School Board.<ref>{{cite news |title="We Made History": CUPE Ontario Re-elects President Fred Hahn and Elects Secretary-Treasurer Yolanda McClean |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220428005945/en/%E2%80%9CWe-Made-History%E2%80%9D-CUPE-Ontario-Re-elects-President-Fred-Hahn-and-Elects-Secretary-Treasurer-Yolanda-McClean |work=www.businesswire.com |date=28 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
In 2018, she was named one of the top 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women.<ref>{{cite web |title=Yolanda McClean |url=https://www.100abcwomen.ca/public-profile-database/6450/yolanda-mcclean/ |website=100abcwomen.ca |publisher=100ABCWomen |language=en-CA |date=8 November 2018}}</ref>
In April 2022, she was elected vice-president of CUPE Ontario, becoming the first Black and racialized officer of CUPE Ontario. A month later, McClean was elected Third Vice-president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists.<ref>{{cite web |title=Yolanda McClean acclaimed Third Vice-President of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists |url=https://cupe.ca/yolanda-mcclean-acclaimed-third-vice-president-coalition-black-trade-unionists |website=Canadian Union of Public Employees |language=en |date=7 June 2022}}</ref>
In August 2022, McClean called on organized labour to support the Black Lives Matter movement.<ref>{{cite news |title=I can’t work if I can’t breathe: why Labour must support Black Lives Matter - Spring |url=https://springmag.ca/i-cant-work-if-i-cant-breathe-why-labour-must-support-black-lives-matter |work=springmag.ca |date=9 August 2022 |language=en-CA}}</ref>
In January 2023, rabble.ca noted that McClean was leading the union's Anti-Racism Organizational Action Plan Committee.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Calugay-Casuga |first1=Gabriela |title=Pushing equity forward within the labour movement |url=https://rabble.ca/labour/pushing-equity-forward-within-the-labour-movement/ |work=rabble.ca |date=20 January 2023}}</ref> A month later in February 2023, she appeared rabble.ca's podcast where she discussed "ways of achieving gender and racial equity inside and outside of Canada’s labour movement."<ref>{{cite news |title=CUPE Ontario’s Yolanda McClean on empowering BIPOC women workers |url=https://rabble.ca/podcast/cupe-yolanda-mcclean-on-empowering-bipoc-women-workers/ |work=rabble.ca |date=3 February 2023}}</ref>
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