Brendan Barber
Sir Brendan Paul Barber (* 3. April 1951 in Southport , Merseyside ) is a British trade union functionary and since 2003 General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the umbrella organization of British unions.
Life
After attending St Mary's College in Crosby, he did a voluntary year as a substitute teacher in the Volta region in Ghana and then studied social sciences at City University London , from which he graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts with Honors (BA Hons.).
After working for the training association of the glass and ceramics industry for a year, he became a political employee of the TUC in 1975 and head of its press and information department in 1979. In 1987 he succeeded John Monks as Head of Organization and Industrial Relations, whom he followed in 1993 as Deputy Secretary General of the TUC.
In 2003 he finally followed Monks as Secretary General of the TUC. In this capacity, he organized an extensive trade union federation strike in November 2011, which he had carefully worked towards with early warnings against the austerity measures by the conservative - liberal government of Prime Minister David Cameron . In contrast to other union officials such as Bob Crow , general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, he sought broader concerns to justify the strike.
In 2013 he was knighted bachelor .
literature
- Brendan Barber: Learned . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 1, 2011, p. 10
Individual evidence
- ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barber, Brendan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barber, Sir Brendan Paul (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British trade unionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Southport , Merseyside |