Rita Donaghy, Baroness Donaghy

Rita Donaghy, Baroness Donaghy

Rita Margaret Donaghy, Baroness Donaghy CBE , FRSA (born October 9, 1944 ) is a British university employee, trade unionist and life peer who sits in the House of Lords for the Labor Party .

She studied at the University of Durham and then worked at the Department of Education at the University of London , as an administrative clerk and later in the student administration secretariat. She became active in the NALGO union , was appointed to the national leadership team in 1973 and was its president in 1989/90. From 1989 she was a member of the council of the umbrella organization TUC as a representative of NALGO, which merged to form UNISON in 1993 , and was President of the TUC in 2000.

In October 2000 she resigned from her union positions and became chair of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service , where she remained until 2007. From 2001 to 2007 she also worked for the Committee on Standards in Public Life (Nolan Committee), replacing Sir Alistair Graham .

She was a member of the Low Pay Commission and the Employment Tribunal Taskforce and Chair of the TUC Disabilities Forum . In 2009 Donaghy was asked to chair an investigation into industrial accidents in the construction industry. The investigation report was published in 2010 and contained a number of recommendations for increasing work safety.

Honors

Donaghy was inducted into the Order of the British Empire as an officer in 1998 for her service to industrial relations and was promoted to commander of the same order in 2005 for her service to workers .

The Open University awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2003. In 2003 she became a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and in 2004 of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

On June 26, 2010, she was raised to Life Peeress as Baroness Donaghy , of Peckham in the London Borough of Southwark .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ACAS Annual Report 2007/08
2. ↑ Annual Report 2006 ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2011 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. 
3. ↑ Downing Street press release
4. ↑ Low Pay Commission Welcomes Historic Introduction Of National Minimum Wage ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Acas annual report 2004/05
6. ↑ Government Responds To Donaghy Report Into Construction Deaths ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2011 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. , Department for Work And Pensions, Wednesday March 31, 2010 
7. ↑ Keele University (2004) ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2011 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. 
8. ↑ the University of Greenwich (2005) ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2011 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. 
9. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 59459, HMSO, London, 15 June 2010, p. 11151 ( PDF , accessed on 12 July 2010, English).