Charles Douglas Grieve (27 April 1927 – December 1996) was a Scottish

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. Born in

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, Grieve worked at the

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factory in Glasgow. He joined the

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(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

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(TUC),

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, "Obituary: Doug Grieve", ''Annual Report of the 1996 Trades Union Congress'' on which he was part of a left-wing group, including

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, 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 merger of the TWU into the

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; once this was completed, in 1986, he retired. In his spare time, Grieve organised a trade union brass band festival in County Durham, and he devoted much of his retirement to the event. He died in London in 1996.''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007''

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grieve, Doug 1927 births 1996 deaths British trade union leaders Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress People from Partick Scottish trade unionists 20th-century Scottish people