Samia Hashi

Samia Hashi is Unifor’s Ontario Regional Director, first elected in 2023 and re-elected by delegates at the 2025 Constitutional Convention.

Since her election, Hashi has championed a boots-on-the-ground approach, standing with members on picket lines, at rallies, demonstrations, and in communities across the province. She has become a leading voice in Unifor’s national campaign to Protect Canadian Jobs, mobilizing Ontario members against escalating trade threats, plant closures, layoffs, and sector-wide instability. Her leadership has been central in organizing major actions, including rallies in Brampton and Windsor, and amplifying the urgent call for coordinated government action to defend Ontario’s auto, manufacturing, forestry, energy, and public service sectors, among others.

Hashi began her tenure by launching a major province-wide health care campaign to expose the crisis facing Ontario’s public health system. Through a series of health care town halls, she heard firsthand from workers and families about the staffing shortages, privatization pressures, and erosion of public services affecting their communities, calling on all levels of government to invest in high-quality, publicly delivered care.

Her work now focuses on supporting Unifor committees, strengthening regional mobilization, and engaging members to build our union and national fightback to protect Canadian jobs, industries, and communities.

Hashi brings a deep understanding of union activism to her role. She rose through the ranks as a member and workplace organizer at Bell Technical Solutions and helped organize thousands of new members across multiple sectors. She previously served as staff in Unifor’s Organizing and Human Rights Departments, where she championed equity-based approaches to building worker power.

As a proud member of Local 6006, she served as a steward and represented young workers on the Unifor Ontario Regional Council’s Young Workers’ Committee.

Hashi’s family immigrated to Canada in 1991 as Eritrean refugees. Their experience seeking rights, safety, and community shaped her lifelong commitment to justice, solidarity, and the fight for a fairer, more equitable future for all workers.