Samia Hashi

Samia Hashi is Unifor’s Ontario Regional Director, elected at the 2023 Canada Council. 

Since her election, she’s taken a boots-on-the-ground approach to supporting members on picket lines, at rallies and demonstrations, and in their communities. 

Hashi began her tenure with a major health care campaign to raise awareness and take action on Ontario’s crumbling health care system, calling on all levels of government to provide adequate funding for necessary staffing levels and high-quality care. In a series of health care town halls, Samia heard firsthand from communities across the province on the critical issues impacting them and their families. 

Her work now focuses on further supporting committees of our union and mobilizing members around the upcoming election season. 

She brings a deep understanding of union organizing to her work—having rose through the ranks at Unifor as a member, an organizer of her workplace, Bell TV, and thousands of other new members, and as a staff member in Unifor’s organizing and human rights departments. 

As a member of Local 6006, Samia served as steward and represented workers across the province as a member of the Unifor Ontario Regional Council’s Young Workers’ Committee. 

Hashi’s family immigrated to Canada in 1991, arriving as Eritrean refugees. Upon arrival, her family found community support and solidarity in addition to the rights and freedoms that her parents had sought for Hashi and her siblings.