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Alan Donnelly

Alan Donnelly (born 16 July 1957) is a British politician and former trade unionist from Jarrow who served as a Labour Member of the European Parliament and leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party.

Bulus Farah

Bulus Farah was a Palestinian trade unionist who founded the Federation of Arab Trade Unions and Labor Societies in 1942.

Dalgleish Report

Two other independent commissioners were appointed: James Kelly, of the British National Union of Mineworkers, and H. O. Smith, a Director of Imperial Chemical Industries.

David Lomon

Amongst the British members of the International Brigade that Lomon fought alongside were the trade union leader Jack Jones and writers George Orwell and Laurie Lee.

Jack W. Smith

Perhaps for this reason, he moved to Ellistown in Coalville, where he was elected agent for the Leicestershire Miners' Association (LMA), replacing Levi Lovett, and he was soon elected onto the executive committee of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB), where he was a supporter of A. J. Cook.

Maurizio Landini

Maurizio Landini (born 7 August 1961) is an Italian trade unionist and General Secretary of the FIOM.

National Minority Movement

Other prominent figures included Wal Hannington, in charge of organization of the metal workers until transferred by the party to work organising the unemployed, the engineer J.T. "Jack" Murphy and coal miners A. J. Cook, Arthur Horner and Nat Watkins.

Sheffield Attercliffe by-election, 1894

Several leading trade unionist wrote in support of this decision, including William Bailey of the Nottinghamshire Miners Association, William Edwin Harvey of the Derbyshire Miners Association and Havelock Wilson of the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union.

Stockport by-election, 1920

A leading Irish trade unionist and secretary of the Irish Labour Party, William X. O'Brien, was interned by Britain for his role in the conflict, and he decided to stand in the by-election as a platform for his cause, and in an attempt to embarrass the British Labour Party into action.


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Alfred Allen

Alfred Allen, Baron Allen of Fallowfield (1914–1985), British life peer and trade unionist

Anthony Clarke

Anthony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Hampstead (born 1932), known as Tony Clarke, British trade unionist and Labour peer

Anton Refregier

It included the 1877 anti-Chinese Sand Lot riots, the 1934 San Francisco Waterfront Strike, and the Trial of trade unionist Tom Mooney, that was based on fabricated evidence.

Brookman

David Brookman, Baron Brookman (born 1937), British steel worker and trade unionist

Dalsheim

Ove Dalsheim (born 1944), Norwegian trade unionist and politician

Emilia, Lady Dilke

Her niece, Gertrude Tuckwell (daughter of her sister Rosa and brother-in-law the Reverend William Tuckwell) worked with her closely in her feminist and trade unionist activities.

Fesser

Franciszek Fesser (1885–1956), Polish coal miner, trade unionist and politician

George Charles

Sir George Frederick Lawrence Charles (7 June 1916 – 26 June 2004) is a former trade unionist, politician, founder of the Saint Lucia Labour Party and Chief Minister of Saint Lucia (1 January 1960 – April 1964).

Great Harwood

Thomas Birtwistle (1833–1912), trade unionist and factory inspector, born at Great Harwood

Gwede Mantashe

He made history by becoming the first trade unionist to be appointed to the board of Directors of a JSE Limited-listed company, namely Samancor, in 1995.

Hans Jensen

Hans G. Jensen (1856–1922), Norwegian trade unionist and politician

Henry Vivian

Henry Harvey Vivian, pioneer of UK co-partnership housing movement, politician & trade unionist

Ivor Thomas

Ivor Owen Thomas (1898–1982), British trade unionist and Labour Party politician

John Hendy

His mother was the youngest daughter of the 6th Baron Wynford and his father was "a communist electrician and trade unionist".

Kate Losinska

Kathleen Mary "Kate" Losinska, OBE (née Conway; 5 October 1922 – 16 October 2013) was a leading Moderate Trade Unionist in Britain, involved in the CPSA and associated with David Stirling.

Kosovo–Serbia relations

The following day, trade unionist Hasan Abazi was arrested with fellow unionist Adem Urseli by Serbian police manning the Central Serbia/Kosovo crossing near Gnjilane.

Lloyd Brown

Lloyd L. Brown, USA, trade unionist and Civil Rights organiser, author of Iron City and latterly secretary to Paul Robeson, Jr.

Lord Wright

Lewis Wright, Baron Wright of Ashton-under-Lyne (1903–1974), a British politician and trade unionist

Mario Giro

Mario Giro (born in 1958 in Rome) is an Italian trade-unionist, and since 1990 a mediator for peace in the Community of Sant'Egidio.

Ole Sohn

Sohn was elected chairman together with the trade unionist Jan Andersen who was a communist hardliner who viewed Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms with great skepticism.

Peter Butler

Peter Michael Butler (1901–1995), New Zealand seaman, trade unionist, communist and local politician

Pivert

Marceau Pivert (1895, Montmachoux, Seine-et-Marne – 1958), a French schoolteacher, trade unionist, Socialist activist and politician

Ruth Levitas

Ruth Levitas is the daughter of trade unionist and Spanish Civil War International Brigade fighter Maurice Levitas, niece of Communist Stepney councillor and Battle of Cable Street veteran Max Levitas and sister of theatre historian Ben Levitas.

Socialist Party of Aotearoa

The party is best known through the influence of its late founder Andersen, a well-known trade unionist who served as president of the Auckland Trades Council, national secretary of the Socialist Unity Party, and president of the National Distribution Union.

Spautz

Jean Spautz (born 1930), a Luxembourger politician and trade unionist

Marc Spautz (born 1963), a Luxembourger politician and trade unionist; son of Jean

Spennymoor

The banner was unfurled on the night before the big meeting, by MEP Stephen Hughes and long-time trade unionist Rodney Bickerstaffe, General Secretary of the trade union UNISON from 1995 to 2001.

Vandor

Augusto Vandor (1923–1969), Argentine trade unionist and politician

Vetlesen

Vesla Vetlesen (born 1930), Norwegian weaver, trade unionist, writer and politician

Viswambharan

P. Viswambharan (born 1925), Indian politician, journalist and trade unionist

Wanja

Wanja Lundby-Wedin (born 1952), Swedish trade unionist and politician

William Drew

William Henry Drew (1854-1933), British trade unionist and a founder of the Independent Labour Party