{"id":278,"date":"2015-05-11T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/?page_id=278"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:44:34","slug":"george-zoni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/?page_id=278","title":{"rendered":"George Zoni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My parents immigrated to Canada from Hungary in 1967 in order to provide better opportunities for themselves and their family; I was born in Montreal in 1969.\u00a0 I grew up on the south shore, lived in the Laurentians for 11 years and have since moved to the Vaudreuil-Soulanges area.\u00a0 I completed a DEC in Analytical Chemistry in 1991 at the college de Valleyfield.<\/p>\n<p>I began working for Rolls-Royce Canada in 1993 as an Analytical Chemist and shortly thereafter became involved with LL2468 in 1997 as the conductor-sentinel; a few years later I became a union steward.\u00a0 My involvement with the negotiation process began when I became a member of the Negotiating Committee in 2011.\u00a0 When the Rolls-Royce Energy business was purchased by Siemens, I was working full-time supporting the energy tests beds.\u00a0 Therefore, my position transferred over to Siemens Canada on December 1, 2014.\u00a0 I became President of LL2468 in January of 2015; in the same instance, I was elected to a position on the Grievance Committee for LL2468 Siemens employees. \u00a0I am also the current chair of the Negotiation Committee for LL2468 Siemens employees.<\/p>\n<p>Becoming actively involved in a local lodge is one of the most challenging and yet most rewarding endeavours to be part of, especially given the current economical and political climate.\u00a0 I initially became involved in the Union due to curiosity and my desire to learn and participate.\u00a0 For similar reasons, I have been\u00a0volunteering in my community as a youth sports coach with various organisations in St-Lazare and the West Island since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>I joined the CAF Reserves in 2014 as an armoured soldier.\u00a0 During my career, I have trained and taken courses in several provinces; I deployed to Latvia in 2025 and experienced an entirely different reality for 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>We are truly blessed here in Canada!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents immigrated to Canada from Hungary in 1967 in order to provide better opportunities for themselves and their family; I was born in Montreal in 1969.\u00a0 I grew up on the south shore, lived in the Laurentians for 11 years and have since moved to the Vaudreuil-Soulanges area.\u00a0 I completed a DEC in Analytical Chemistry in 1991 at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":237,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-278","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278\/revisions\/1905"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2468.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}