"Bill Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth William Manuel Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth, OJ, DL (born 19 October 1938), generally known as Bill Morris, is a former British trade union leader. He was General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union from 1992 to 2003, and the first black leader of a major British trade union. Morris sits in the House of Lords, taking the Labour Party whip. Bill Morris was born in Manchester Parish, Jamaica. After the death of his father, William, a part-time policeman, his mother, Una, emigrated to England to find work settling in Handsworth, Birmingham."
"Ron Todd (trade unionist) Ronald Todd (11 March 1927 – 30 April 2005), generally known as Ron Todd, was the general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), then the largest general trade union in the United Kingdom, from 1985 until 1992. Todd was born in Walthamstow, London. His father was a stallholder in a local street market and Todd left school at the age of 14 to work in a barber's shop. He also worked as an assistant to a plumber before being conscripted into the Royal Marines in 1945. For a time he served alongside his"
"Transport and General Workers' Union The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU or T&G) was one of the largest general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland - where it was known as the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union (ATGWU) to differentiate itself from the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union - with 900,000 members (and was once the largest trade union in the world). It was founded in 1922, and its first general secretary was Ernest Bevin. In 2007, it merged with Amicus to form Unite the Union. At the time of its creation in 1922, the"
"been married to the communist trade union organiser and close friend of Jones, George Brown but he had been killed in the Battle of Brunete in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Jack Jones (trade unionist) James Larkin Jones (29 March 1913 – 21 April 2009), known as Jack Jones, was a British trade union leader and General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union. Jones was born in Garston, Liverpool, Lancashire. He was named after the Liverpool-born Irish trade unionist James Larkin. He left school at 14 and worked as an engineering apprentice. After the Wall Street Crash,"
"the RMT, said: ""Bob would have been honoured that young people from Britain would fight the forces of evil in his name. A great admirer of the international brigades that fought in Spain, Crow would of course have drawn the parallels with the new international brigades fighting clerical fascism and defending Yazhidi, Muslim and Christian workers from slavery and persecution."" Bob Crow Robert Crow (13 June 196111 March 2014) was an English trade union leader who served as the General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) from 2002 until his death. He was also"
"Jack Jones (trade unionist) James Larkin Jones (29 March 1913 – 21 April 2009), known as Jack Jones, was a British trade union leader and General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union. Jones was born in Garston, Liverpool, Lancashire. He was named after the Liverpool-born Irish trade unionist James Larkin. He left school at 14 and worked as an engineering apprentice. After the Wall Street Crash, Jones lost his job, eventually finding employment with a firm of signmakers and painters. He then joined his father as a Liverpool docker. Jack Jones was converted to socialism by reading ""The"
"Moss Evans Arthur Mostyn Evans (13 July 1925 – 12 January 2002), better known as Moss Evans, was the general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), then the largest general trade union in the United Kingdom, from 1978 until 1985. Moss was born in a small terraced house in the Welsh village of Cefn Coed near Merthyr Tydfil. When he was 12 his family moved to Small Heath, Birmingham, as his father had heard there was work which he was determined to find. This was towards the end of The Depression and his father, a miner, had"
"Died Heacham, Norfolk Moss Evans Arthur Mostyn Evans (13 July 1925 – 12 January 2002), better known as Moss Evans, was the general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), then the largest general trade union in the United Kingdom, from 1978 until 1985. Moss was born in a small terraced house in the Welsh village of Cefn Coed near Merthyr Tydfil. When he was 12 his family moved to Small Heath, Birmingham, as his father had heard there was work which he was determined to find. This was towards the end of The Depression and his father,"
"boss Sir Richard Branson using the same ""Black Prince"" name, the first union secretary to have such an honour since former ASLEF secretary William P. Allen, General Secretary until 1947. After being voted out of office in May 1998 to be replaced by left wing candidate Mick Rix, Adams joined Virgin Trains as a training manager. In 2003 Adams was campaign manager for right-wing candidate Shaun Brady's unexpectedly successful campaign to be elected ASLEF General Secretary, defeating the incumbent Rix. Brady was removed from office the following year after a bitter dispute with the union's Executive Committee. Adams was later"
"Tom Sawyer, Baron Sawyer Lawrence Sawyer, Baron Sawyer (born 12 May 1943), known as Tom Sawyer, is a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. He was General Secretary of the Labour Party from 1994 to 1998. Sawyer was educated at Dodmire School, Eastbourne Comprehensive School and Darlington Technical College. After his education, Sawyer worked in engineering, before moving into trade unionism. He became a National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) Officer in 1971, becoming their Northern Regional Officer in 1975. In 1981, he was made Deputy General Secretary of NUPE and served through its merger to become UNISON until"
"of its National Executive Committee from 1919 until 1929, and served as Chair of the Labour Party in 1924/5. The following year, he was elected as President of the International Transport Workers' Federation. In 1929, he was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, serving for three years, thereby swapping positions with Thomas. In 1931, Thomas was given a ministerial position, and Cramp took over as General Secretary, but he died suddenly two years later. Charlie Cramp Concemore Thomas Thwaites Cramp (19 March 1876–13 July 1933), known as Charlie Cramp, was a British trade unionist and political"
"Tom Hurley, Lynas, McKenzie, Walt Wood and S. J. Wright all continued in post as district secretaries, Thorne continued as general secretary, and Clynes as president, while Bondfield, Jones and Sherwood were appointed as assistant general secretaries. National Union of General Workers (UK) The National Union of General Workers (NUGW) was an early general union in the United Kingdom, the most important general union of its era. The union was founded in 1889 as the National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers by Will Thorne, Ben Tillett and William Byford, following lay offs at Beckton gas works. Thorne was"
"Bob Crow Robert Crow (13 June 196111 March 2014) was an English trade union leader who served as the General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) from 2002 until his death. He was also a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). A self-described ""communist/socialist"", he was a leading figure in the No to EU – Yes to Democracy campaign. Crow joined London Transport in 1977 and soon became involved in trade unionism. He was regarded as part of the Awkward Squad, a loose grouping of left-wing union leaders who"
"hospital. Deakin was succeeded as general secretary by Jock Tiffin. Arthur Deakin Arthur Deakin (11 November 1890–1 May 1955) was a prominent British trade unionist who was acting general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union from 1940 and then general secretary from 1945 to 1955. Deakin was born in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, in 1890. After his father's death, his mother remarried and the family moved to South Wales. He began his working life at the age of 13 at the Dowlais Ironworks. He became an active trade unionist during the First World War and a full-time official in"
"Brenda Dean Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, (29 April 1943 – 13 March 2018) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. As general secretary of SOGAT from 1985 until 1991, she was ""the first woman elected to head a major industrial trade union."" She was born in Salford; her father was a railway signalman and her mother worked in a carpet factory. As a child the family moved to Eccles, and she attended Stretford High School for Girls. She began her career as a trade unionist as a teenager, initially as a member of the National Union"
"International Transport Workers' Federation, and served five years in that position. Although the Transport Workers were signatories to the Triple Alliance, allying them with the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) and the National Union of Railwaymen, on 15 April 1921 Williams decided not to support strike action in support of miners who had seen their wages cut, a decision which became known as ""Black Friday"". He was expelled from the Communist Party, and renewed his membership of the Labour Party the following year. Williams stood unsuccessfully for Labour in Coventry at the 1923 and 1924 general elections, but was"
"Richard Rosser, Baron Rosser Richard Andrew Rosser, Baron Rosser (born 5 October 1944) is a British former trade union leader and Labour politician, sitting in the House of Lords. Initially employed by London Transport he joined the staff of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) early in his working career, representing London Transport's white-collar staff in negotiations with the management. He rose through the ranks of the TSSA to be an Assistant General Secretary (one of two, at the time), and in 1989 he was elected General Secretary of the union (i.e. in day-to-day control, but answerable to an elected"
"figure than the union's previous leaders, and described one of his predecessors, Jack Peel, as a ""Judas"" for his criticisms of British trade unions while Director of Industrial Relations at the European Economic Community's Social Affairs Directorate. Maddocks organised a merger of the NUDBTW into the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), which was completed in 1982. Although he was expected to take up a post as a National Secretary of the TGWU, his health was poor, and he decided instead to retire. Bill Maddocks William Henry Maddocks (18 February 1921 – 23 August 1992) was a British trade union"
"Transport Workers of London"". In 1922, the union became part of the new Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), and Devenay was appointed as secretary of its General Workers Group. In 1914, Devenay was appointed to the Port of London Authority, replacing Harry Orbell, and in 1930 he was made chair of its maintenance committee, the most senior position held to that date by any trade unionist on the body. He retired from his trade union posts in 1932, and died in May 1934. William Devenay William Devenay (1864 – 12 May 1934) was a British trade unionist and politician."
"Tom Chambers (trade unionist) Tom Chambers (July 1867 – 3 January 1926) was a British trade unionist. Born in St Neots, Chambers left school at the age of twelve and began working in a grocery shop. He later completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason and developed an interest in socialism, being an early member of the Independent Labour Party. He moved to London in 1893. In 1896, Chambers was elected as the Secretary of the International Transport Workers Federation, serving until 1904. He was active in the Independent Labour Party and was elected as the first General Secretary of the"
"Dave Ward (trade unionist) Dave Ward, (born 12 July 1959), is a British Trade Unionist and General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), which was formed through the merger of the Union of Communication Workers and the National Communications Union in 1995. The CWU is the largest trade union in the United Kingdom for people working in the Postal and Telecommunications industry with over 180,000 members. Ward is a co-chair of Stand Up To Racism. Born in Lambeth, London Ward joined the Post Office as a Telegram boy in 1976 after leaving school and quickly became an active Union"
"Ken Gill Ken Gill (30 August 1927 – 23 May 2009) was a British trade union leader. He was the General Secretary of the Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section (TASS), from 1974 to 1988, when it merged with ASTMS to form the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union (MSF). He was General Secretary of the MSF, 1988–1992, initially jointly with Clive Jenkins. A committed Communist, he was elected to the TUC General Council in 1974, and was a prominent figure in the militant industrial relations of the 1970s. From 1981 to 1987 he was a member of the Commission for Racial"
"Chairman in 1946. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Middlesex from 1949. He was also a founder member of the British Institute of Management. Cliff drove the last London tram into New Cross Depot in July 1952. He died at Eastbourne in 1977. John Cliff John Cliff (7 March 1883–18 October 1977) was the first Assistant General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union and later a prominent London Transport board member. Cliff was born in Leeds in 1883, the son of John Cliff and his wife Mary. He joined Leeds Corporation Transport Department on 18 July 1900 as"
"assistant general secretary of the union, by now renamed as the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA). He became general secretary in 1963, and was also elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, and in 1965 to the general council of the International Transport Workers' Federation. He retired from his trade union posts in 1968, due to poor health. However, he remained active as a member of the Industrial Arbitration Board, for which work he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. John Bothwell (trade unionist) John Gibb Bothwell (1909 or 1910 – 1994)"
"and Transport Committee, on which he served until his death in 1987. Fred Dyson (trade unionist) Fred Dyson (28 September 1916 – 24 April 1987) was a British trade unionist. Dyson grew up in Slaithwaite, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, becoming a wool spinner in 1934. During World War II, he served with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, returning to spinning in 1946. He was active in the National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers, becoming a full-time organiser in 1953, then a Work Study Officer and, in 1970, secretary of the Manchester District. Dyson was"
"having him promoted to become joint general secretary. In 1927, Brown uncovered evidence which, he claimed, showed that European trade unions were intriguing against the British unions, which wished to bring Russian trade unions into the organisation. The TUC argued that Brown should be elected as sole general secretary, but this was not accepted. In the face of an impasse, both Brown and another general secretary, Jan Oudegeest, chose to resign. John W. Brown (British trade unionist) John William Brown (born 1886) was a British trade union leader and political activist. He came to greatest prominence as general secretary of"
"died in 1993, aged 74. Geoffrey Drain Geoffrey Ayrton Drain CBE (26 November 1918 – 2 April 1993) was a British trade union leader who was General Secretary of NALGO (the National and Local Government Officers Association) from 1973 to 1983, when it was the third largest trade union in the country. Born in Preston, Lancashire, Drain studied law at Queen Mary College, London. After serving in World War II, he became assistant secretary at the Institute of Hospital Administrators in 1946, and became active in the Labour Party, standing unsuccessfully as their candidate in Chippenham in the 1950 General"
"and led a trade mission to Pakistan for the Labour government in 1950. George Bagnall George Henry Bagnall (1883 – 9 March 1964) was a British trade unionist. Born in Pendleton near Salford, Bagnall worked as a coal miner for seven years before becoming a dyer in the textile industry. He joined the Amalgamated Society of Dyers, Finishers and Kindred Trades, serving as General Secretary from 1933 to 1936, negotiating the merger which formed the National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers. Bagnall was elected as the new union's general secretary three years later, and subsequently also became secretary"
"stood down as leader in 2003, one year ahead of schedule. John Edmonds (trade unionist) John Edmonds (born 28 January 1944) is a former trade union official in the United Kingdom. Edmonds grew up in South London, and was educated at Christ's Hospital School and Oriel College, Oxford. On graduation, he found work as a research assistant with the National Union of General and Municipal Workers, moving on to become a field officer, then a National Industrial Officer. In 1986, Edmonds became General Secretary of the union, by then known as the GMB. In this role, he became known as"
"Labourers Union, and the Navvies', Bricklayers' Labourers' and General Labourers' Union. This was not successful, as the United Order had little interest in merging with these unions. Instead, it affiliated to the National Transport Workers' Federation and, in 1924, it merged into the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1924. The union's general secretary from 1913 until 1924 was John Davenport. United Order of General Labourers The United Order of General Labourers was a trade union representing labourers, mostly in the construction industry, in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1878 in London, initially as a very small"
"John Cliff John Cliff (7 March 1883–18 October 1977) was the first Assistant General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union and later a prominent London Transport board member. Cliff was born in Leeds in 1883, the son of John Cliff and his wife Mary. He joined Leeds Corporation Transport Department on 18 July 1900 as a tram conductor and later became a tram motorman. He married Sarah Ann Scott, who was 19 years his senior, in 1906. He joined the Amalgamated Association of Tramway and Vehicle Workers and later became the Leeds branch chairman and a member of"
"Arthur Deakin Arthur Deakin (11 November 1890–1 May 1955) was a prominent British trade unionist who was acting general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union from 1940 and then general secretary from 1945 to 1955. Deakin was born in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, in 1890. After his father's death, his mother remarried and the family moved to South Wales. He began his working life at the age of 13 at the Dowlais Ironworks. He became an active trade unionist during the First World War and a full-time official in 1919. In 1932, he became national secretary of the General"
"1979. He died in Ilkley, West Yorkshire on 6 June 2003. Thomas Jackson (trade unionist) Thomas Jackson (9 April 1925 – 6 June 2003) was a British trade unionist and is best remembered as the General Secretary of the Union of Post Office Workers who led 200,000 members into a 47-day strike in 1971, the first national postal strike. Jackson was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Aged 14 he began work for the GPO as a telegraph boy. He spent three years (1943–46) on wartime service in the Royal Navy. Upon his return he became a postman, and later a"