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Doug Grieve
Charles Douglas Grieve (27 April 1927 – December 1996) was a Scottish trade unionist. Born in Partick, Grieve worked at the Mitchell factory in Glasgow. He joined the Tobacco Workers' Union (TWU), and was appointed to the joint post of national organiser and financial secretary. In October 1969, he succeeded Charles Butler as the union's general secretary. In 1973, Grieve was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC),Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Doug Grieve", ''Annual Report of the 1996 Trades Union Congress'' on which he was part of a left-wing group, including Rodney Bickerstaffe, Ken Cameron, Bill Keys, Alan Sapper and Jim Slater. In 1981, he won election as chair of the Trades Councils Joint Consultative Committee, while, in 1983, he was expected to win election as President of the TUC, but the General Council was reorganised that year, and he lost his seat. With the decline in tobacco-related employment in the UK, Grieve negotiated the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish People
The Scots ( sco, Scots Fowk; gd, Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged in the early Middle Ages from an amalgamation of two Celtic-speaking peoples, the Picts and Gaels, who founded the Kingdom of Scotland (or ''Alba'') in the 9th century. In the following two centuries, the Celtic-speaking Cumbrians of Strathclyde and the Germanic-speaking Angles of north Northumbria became part of Scotland. In the High Middle Ages, during the 12th-century Davidian Revolution, small numbers of Norman nobles migrated to the Lowlands. In the 13th century, the Norse-Gaels of the Western Isles became part of Scotland, followed by the Norse of the Northern Isles in the 15th century. In modern usage, "Scottish people" or "Scots" refers to anyone whose linguistic, cultural, family ancestral or genetic origins are from Scotland. The Latin word ''Scoti'' originally referred to the Gaels, but came to describe all inhabitants of Scotland. Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Durham
County Durham ( ), officially simply Durham,UK General Acts 1997 c. 23Lieutenancies Act 1997 Schedule 1(3). From legislation.gov.uk, retrieved 6 April 2022. is a ceremonial county in North East England.North East Assembly â€About North East England. Retrieved 30 November 2007. The ceremonial county spawned from the historic County Palatine of Durham in 1853. In 1996, the county gained part of the abolished ceremonial county of Cleveland.Lieutenancies Act 1997 . Retrieved 27 October 2014. The county town is the of |
People From Partick
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Members Of The General Council Of The Trades Union Congress
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British Trade Union Leaders
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1996 Deaths
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1927 Births
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Brian Nicholson
Brian Gerald Nicholson (9 May 1933 – 20 January 2018) was a British trade unionist. Nicholson grew up in the East End of London, and worked as a docker. He joined the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), and by 1968 was a member of the executive of its No.1 Docks Group. In this role, he was a vocal opponent of racism and fascism, speaking out in particular against the support of some dockers for Enoch Powell. This theme was prominent in his 1974 pamphlet, ''Racialism, Fascism and the Trade Unions''. By 1972, Nicholson was a member of TGWU's executive, regarded as being on the left wing of the union, and a vice-chair of the Institute for Workers' Control. In 1975, Nicholson advocated industrial action against containerisation at Tilbury Docks. A strike took place, but it was poorly organised and supported, and after unions members voted to return to work without gaining any concesions, Nicholson accepted the decision. During the strike, Nicholson secretly passed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Parry
Terence Parry CBE (24 December 1921 – 15 April 1982) was a British firefighter and trade unionist. Born in Coniston, Lancashire, Parry started work for the Blue Funnel Line at the age of fifteen. He served in the Royal Navy in the Pacific during World War II, and joined the Fire Service in Birmingham as soon as he was demobbed. Parry rapidly became active in the Fire Brigades Union, and was elected as its President in 1959.''Report of Annual Trades Union Congress'', vol.124, p.347 In 1964, he beat Enoch Humphries by 2,000 votes to become General Secretary of the union. Humphries was subsequently elected as his replacement as President, and the two worked closely together, arguing successfully that firefighters should take on fire prevention inspections in place of cleaning work.Obituary Enoch Humphries [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Whatley (trade Unionist)
William Henry Potts Whatley OBE (16 December 1922 – 4 September 1997) was a British trade union leader. Early life Whatley attended Gosforth Secondary School before briefly becoming a clerk with the Co-operative Wholesale Society. The following year, World War II broke out, and Whatley served with the Royal Air Force."Whatley served as a pilot in Bomber Command, and rose to the rank of SquadronLeadWhatley, William Henry Potts, ''Who Was Who'' After the war, Whatley joined the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW), becoming a full-time area organiser in Bristol in 1948. He was promoted to National Officer in 1966 and Chief Organising Officer in 1976, becoming third most senior official in the union."Contenders for USDAW job", ''The Guardian'', 27 February 1979 In 1979, USDAW's general secretary, Alf Allen, stood down, and Whatley defeated John Dilks to succeed Allen. As general secretary, he also served on the General Council of the Trades Union Cong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Gretton
Stanley Gretton (1920 or 1921 – 17 June 1975) was a British trade union leader. Gretton worked as a baker, and joined the Amalgamated Union of Operative Bakers in 1937. He soon became a shop steward, then branch secretary, before working full-time for the union at the district and regional level. In 1968, he was elected as general secretary of what was by then known as the Bakers' Union. As leader, Gretton was considered to be on the right wing of the union movement. He focused his time on the industry's National Joint Committee for England and Wales, and was chosen as its chair. He was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1969, but in 1972 the union refused to follow TUC policy of deregistering with the government, and was therefore expelled from the organisation. That year, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. By 1974, union members were becoming increasingly discontented with low pay, but Gretton opposed claims for lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Allen, Baron Allen Of Fallowfield
Alfred Walter Henry Allen, Baron Allen of Fallowfield, CBE (7 July 1914 – 14 January 1985) was a British trade unionist and governor of the BBC. Early life Born in Bristol, he was educated at East Bristol School and worked then for the Bristol Co-operative Society until 1940, when he joined the Royal Air Force. After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Allen left the Force as a sergeant and was chosen as an area organiser of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers in the year thereafter. Following its merger into the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers in 1947, he became a national officer in 1951. Allen was elected the Union's general secretary in 1962, a post he held for seventeen years until 1979. In the 1967 Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Allen was a member of the general council of the Trades Union Congress and in 1974 was nominated its president. On 10 July of the latter year, he was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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