Margaret Prosser, Baroness Prosser

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Margaret Prosser, Baroness Prosser

Margaret Theresa Prosser, Baroness Prosser OBE (born August 22, 1937 in London , England ) is a British trade union official and politician of the Labor Party .

Life

Margaret Theresa Prosser was born in the London borough of Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth , South London, to Frederick James and Lillian James (née Barry). She attended St Boniface Primary School on Undine Street in Tooting and St Philomena's School in Carshalton .

She studied late at the North East London Polytechnic , where she obtained a post-graduate diploma in 1977 in Advice and Information Studies.

In the early 1970s Prosser became active in the Labor Party and began her career as a union official.

In 1974 she began her career with the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), one of the largest unions in Great Britain. From 1974 to 1977 she was the organizer of the advice center as part of a project financed by the Home Office to promote communal development ( Community Development Project ). From 1977 to 1983 she worked as a law center advisor in the union's legal advice center. For the TGWU, Prosser held other functions in the following years. She worked as a “District Organizer” (1983–1984), as a “National Woman's Secretary” (1984–1992), as a “National Organizer” (1992–1998) and finally from 1998 to 2002 as Deputy General Secretary ( Deputy General Secretary ) . In 2002 she retired from TGWU.

In 1995/1996 she was President of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). From 1996 to 2001 she was Treasurer of the Labor Party.

Prosser was a member of the Equal Opportunities Commission (1985-1992), the Employment Appeal Tribunal (1995-2007), the Central Arbitration Committee (2000-2002) and the Low Pay Commission (2000-2005) as well. She was also chair of the Women's National Commission (2002–2007). Since 2006 she has been the Deputy Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

From 2004 to 2010 she was also the non-executive director of the national postal service Royal Mail .

In 2012 she published her autobiography Your Seat is at the End , which she co-authored with Greg Watts; Tony Blair wrote the foreword .

Membership in the House of Lords

On June 11, 2004, Prosser was named a Life Peer . She bears the title Baroness Prosser , of Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth. She sits in the House of Lords for the Labor Party.

On November 29, 2004, she gave her inaugural address.

Prosser's areas of political interest include labor law , wage policy, in particular equal pay for men and women, as well as equality and equality in society. She is particularly interested in the countries of the Middle East and the USA .

Honors

In 1997 Prosser was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire .

In 2007 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the London Metropolitan University . She received the title of Doctor of Philosophy in recognition of her services in the fight against discrimination against women , blacks and other ethnic minorities.

Private

Prosser's hobbies include walking and cooking .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Rt Hon the Lady Prosser, OBE (biography at Debretts (available online))
  2. ↑ a b Baroness Margaret Prosser of Battersea reflects on career in new book in: Your Local Guardian of September 22, 2012
  3. ↑ a b Baroness Margaret Prosser OBE receives an honorary degree from London Met ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Short biography (Official website of the London Metropolitan University of December 7, 2007) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.londonmet.ac.uk
  4. ↑ Baroness Margaret Prosser of Battersea OBE ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Biography (Official Website of the Equality and Human Rights Commission) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.equalityhumanrights.com
  5. ^ A b Margaret Theresa Prosser, Baroness Prosser on thepeerage.com , accessed September 12, 2016.
  6. ↑ Address in Reply to Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech (wording of the inaugural speech of November 29, 2004)
personal data
SURNAME Prosser, Margaret, Baroness Prosser
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prosser, Margaret Theresa, Baroness Prosser (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British trade union official and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England