Andrew Miller (politician)

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Andrew Miller (born March 23, 1949 in Isleworth , Middlesex , United Kingdom ; died December 24, 2019 ) was a British trade unionist and politician . From 1992 to 2015 he was a member of the House of Commons for the Labor Party .

Life

Miller was born on March 23, 1949 in Isleworth, west of London , to a government employee. Due to his location, Miller first went to school in Malta , then still a British colony , and later in Hayling Island and in Portsmouth in Hampshire . He began his professional career in 1967 as a laboratory technician in the geological faculty at Portsmouth Polytechnic, the forerunner of today's university . In 1976 Miller began studying at the London School of Economics , where he earned a degree in industrial relations . From 1977 until his move to the House of Commons in 1992, Miller was employed by the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) and the Manufacturing, Science and Finance (MSF) that resulted from it .

2014 awarded him the University Chester the honorary doctorate , the following year he was appointed Honorary Fellow Hren of John Moores University appointed in Liverpool.

Miller had lived in Cheshire since 1985 in a house that was in need of renovation and then restored. After being seriously ill for some time, Miller died on December 24, 2019 at the age of 70. He left behind his wife Frances, to whom he had been married since 1975, and three grown children, two sons and a daughter.

politics

Miller joined the Labor Party in 1968. When he and his wife moved to the north-west of England for work in 1977, they had still been ordinary members and he had no further plans for a career in politics. In 1991 he agreed to a request from the party to run in the 1992 general election in Ellesmere Port and Neston to succeed Conservative Mike Woodcock , who did not run again. Surprisingly, Miller succeeded in beating his opponent Andrew Pearce by just under 2000 votes and subsequently successfully defending his mandate four times. Before the 2015 election , he announced that he would not stand again and thus resigned from parliament at the end of March 2015 after 23 years. He was succeeded by Justin Madders , also from the Labor Party.

In London, Miller served as Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Department of Commerce and Industry from 2001 to 2005 . In the lower house, Miller was involved in the areas of science and research, where he was chairman of the relevant parliamentary committees from 2005 until he left the House . He also campaigned for minimum wages to be raised, and he saw the greatest personal success being the introduction of a Private Member's Bill to improve working conditions for employees at temporary and temporary employment agencies . The initiative failed in 2008 due to resistance within the government. For two years, however, this brought it in itself in only a slightly changed form as an implementing regulation for the EU directive on temporary agency work , passed as Agency Workers Regulations 2010 . At the local level, Miller fought in particular for the majority of jobs at the Vauxhall factory in Ellesmere Port .

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SURNAME Miller, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British trade unionist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Isleworth , Middlesex , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2019