Harold Collison, Baron Collison

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Harold Collison, Baron Collison

Harold Francis Collison, Baron Collison CBE (* 10. May 1909 in London , † 29. December 1995 ) was a British trade union functionary and politician of the Labor Party , which for many years General Secretary of the Trade Union of Agricultural Workers NUAW ( National Union of Agricultural Workers ) and 1964 to 1965 chairman of the umbrella organization of the trade unions TUC ( Trades Union Congress ) was and 1964 when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Promotion to General Secretary of the NUAW

After attending the Hay Currie School in Poplar and the Crypt School in Gloucester in 1926, Collison began his career as a worker in poultry farms and farms in Gloucester at the age of seventeen. Shortly thereafter, he joined the Union of Agricultural Workers NUAW ( National Union of Agricultural Workers in) and was involved as an active member before he 1941 General of the NUAW in the county of Gloucestershire was. At the same time his political involvement in the Labor Party began as party secretary in Stroud .

In 1953, Collison succeeded Alfred "Alf" Dann as Secretary General of the National Union of Agricultural Workers and held this position for sixteen years until he was replaced by Reg Bottini in 1969. At the same time, he was a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the umbrella organization of the British trade unions, and between 1957 and 1969 Chairman of the TUC Social Insurance and Industrial Welfare Committee. In addition, he served as President of the International Federation of Plantation, Agricultural and Allied Workers from 1960 to 1976 and at the same time as a member of the executive branch of the International Labor Organization (ILO).

Chairman of the TUC and member of the House of Lords

Collison, who became Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1961 , succeeded George H. Lowthian in September 1964 as Chairman of the Trades Union Congress and held this position until he was replaced by Joseph O'Hagan in 1965.

Due to his many years of service as a union official, on the proposal of Prime Minister Harold Wilson , he was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated December 14, 1964 under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Collison , of Cheshunt in the County of Hertfordshire and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death.

During his membership in the House of Lords, Baron Collison was Chairman of the Supplementary Benefits Commission from 1969 to 1975 and was also active as President of the Association of Agriculture from 1976 to 1984 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43506, HMSO, London, December 4, 1964, p. 10317 ( PDF , accessed October 10, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Collison, Harold, Baron Collison
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Collison, Harold Francis, Baron Collison (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and union official
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1995