Paul Thomas Noon OBE (born 1 December 1952) is a former

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. Noon left school at the age of eighteen, and joined the civil service. He became active in the

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(IPCS), serving as a negotiator from 1973. The IPCS became the

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(IPMS) and Noon was elected as its general secretary in 1999.Paul Noon
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'' In 2001, he took the IPMS into a merger which formed Prospect, becoming general secretary of the new organisation. Noon served on the

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from 2001, serving as its lead on energy and the environment, and on its executive committee from 2002. From 2001 to 2003 and 2009 to 2012, he chaired the

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. At the end of 2012, Noon retired from his trade union posts, and was made an

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. He subsequently became a director of the

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. Prospect,
‘Team effort’ says Paul Noon on being awarded an OBE
, 2 January 2013

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Noon, Paul 1952 births Living people British trade union leaders Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress Officers of the Order of the British Empire