Len Murray

Lionel "Len" Murray, Baron Murray of Epping Forest (born August 2, 1922 in Hadley , Shropshire , England ; † May 20, 2004 in London ) was a British functionary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the umbrella organization of the trade unions , as well politicians of the Labor Party .

Life

Murray began his professional career in 1947 as an assistant in the economics department of the Trades Union Congress before becoming head of that department in 1954. In 1969 he was elected Deputy Secretary General of the TUC.

On September 7, 1973, he was elected as the successor to Victor Feather himself as general secretary of the umbrella organization and held this position for exactly eleven years until September 7, 1984, until his early resignation. In an interview , he summarized his task as follows :

"Ultimately, I see my job as providing ordinary people with an appropriate standard of living ."

('Ultimately I see my job as getting a decent standard of living for ordinary people.')

He led the Trades Union Congress during the height of the umbrella organization's power in the mid- 1970s and thus played a central role in negotiating the so-called Social Contract with the Labor Party government at the time. Most recently, after the Conservative government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher took office in 1979 , the umbrella organization increasingly lost its influence and membership. He was succeeded as Secretary General of the TUC on September 7, 1984, Norman Willis .

In 1985 he became a life peer with the title Baron Murray of Epping Forest in the nobility raised and belonged until his death in the upper house ( House of Lords ) as a member of the Labor Party.

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