One of the other really good stories in his biography was his early days as a union leader in Woodstock, Ontario. Bob became union president or shop steward at 18 or 19 and he led his workplace out on strike.  He recalled that he was feeling pretty good about himself for standing up to the company when the UAW staff representative  basically said to him now that you have them on strike how are you going to get them back to work.  White had not thought about that at the time but always did after that first experience.