George Heyman is an activist and former trade unionist in British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

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Heyman served as president of the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union (BCGEU) from June 1999 to June 2008. He had previously served as vice-president of the BCGEU, the British Columbia Federation of Labour

British Columbia Federation of Labour

British Columbia Federation of Labour is the voice of the Labour movement in British Columbia, Canada.Founded in 1910 and now having over 470,000 individual members and 1100 locals or union sections, the BC Federation of Labour is the provincial Canadian Labour Congress affiliate and the umbrella...

 and the National Union of Public and General Employees

National Union of Public and General Employees

The National Union of Public and General Employees is a Canadian trade union. Taken in total it is the second largest union in Canada. Most of its 340,000 members work in the provincial public service sector...

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In the late 1970s and 1980s he was active as a union and community organizer in the northwest of the province.

In 2009, he was appointed executive director of the Sierra Club

Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president...

in BC.