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Gerry Anthony Morrissey (born 12 April 1960) is an
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and was the head of the BECTU sector of the Prospect union up until his retirement in 2018. He was succeeded by Philippa Childs. Born in
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,
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, Morrissey attended the local Christian Brothers school. He began his career as a catering buyer at the
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, joining the
Association of Broadcasting Staff The Association of Broadcasting and Allied Staffs (ABS) was a British broadcasting trade union. The organisation was founded in 1945 with the merger of the BBC Staff (Wartime) Association and the Association of BBC Engineers to form the BBC St ...
in 1977. He became prominent in the union as it underwent a series of mergers to form the
Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union The Broadcasting, Entertainment, Communications and Theatre Union (BECTU), formerly the Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union, became a sector of the Prospect trade union in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2017 following the ...
(BECTU). In 1998, he became one of BECTU's two Assistant General Secretaries. In February 2007, he was elected General Secretary without opposition. He is married with two children. From 2011, Morrissey also served as the President of the
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's Media and Entertainment International section. Morrissey took BECTU into a merger with Prospect at the start of 2017, and became the first head of the new BECTU sector of Prospect.


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