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About Roy Trotman
- Cardinal LeRoy Trotman (born 9 May 1944) is a Barbadian trade unionist and politician. Born in Bathsheba, Trotman studied at the University of the West Indies and then Rutgers University.
- He worked as a teacher and university lecturer, and joined the Barbados Workers' Union (BWU).
- He was elected as a president of the Modern High School division of the union in the 1960s.
- In 1971, he began working full-time for the union, initially as personal assistant to its general secretary, Frank Walcott.In 1978, Trotman was promoted to become deputy general secretary and director of organisation for the union.
- He also became politically active, and in 1986 won election to the House of Assembly of Barbados, representing St Michael Central for the Democratic Labour Party (DLP).
- In 1989, he was additionally elected as president of the Caribbean Congress of Labour, and this increased his international profile; in 1992, he was elected as president of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.Walcott became unwell in 1992, and decided to stand down as leader of the BWU.
- Trotman became acting general secretary, and was then elected as Walcott's successor.
- In 1994, he switched from the House of Assembly to the Senate of Barbados.
- The following year, he founded the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados, and was elected as its first president.
- In 2002, he became chair of the workers' group of the International Labour Organization's (ILO) governing body.Trotman retired from the ILO in 2011, and from the BWU in 2014.
- In recognition of his work, he was knighted in 2002, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies in 2006.
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