William Brett, Baron Brett

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William Henry Brett, Baron Brett (born March 6, 1942 in Heywood , Lancashire , † March 29, 2012 ) was a British politician ( Labor Party ) and economic manager .

life and career

William Henry Brett, son of William and Mary Brett, attended Radcliffe Technical College at the University of Manchester . From 1958 to 1964 he worked as a booking clerk for British Rail , from 1965 to 1967 he was administrative assistant for the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association and from 1966 to 1968 negotiator for the Northwest District of the National Union of Bank Employees . From 1968 to 1974, Brett was a Divisional Officer for the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs .

He was a presenter on BBC Radio Nottingham . In the Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists (IPMS), today PROSPECT , he was from 1974 to 1980, first as Secretary ( Assistant Secretary ) (jurisdiction over members from the fields of environment and agriculture ), 1980 to 1989 (as Deputy Secretary General Assistant General Secretary ) (responsible for the public and private sector ), and finally from 1989 to 1999 as General Secretary ( General Secretary operates).

Also from 1989 to 1999 he was a member of the Executive Committee at Public Services International (PSI) and the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). From 1992 to 2003 Brett was a member, deputy president and chairman of the Workers' Group of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva , from 2002 to 2003 he was chairman of the governing body there . Since 2004 he has been ILO Director of Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland ; however, the ILO office in London has since been closed. He was also a member of the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (APEX) from 1960 to 1999 . From 1998 to 2000 he was the Non-Executive Director of Docklands Light Railway .

Membership in the House of Lords

On July 20, 1999, he was named Life Peer as Baron Brett , of Lydd in the County of Kent. His political interests included human rights , development aid , economic and labor market issues and, geographically, Africa .

From 2008 to 2010 he was the Government Whip and from 2009 to 2010 Government Spokesperson for International Development . In 2009 he was also, as part of a maternity representation, Parliamentary Secretary ( Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State ) in the home office and remained so until 2010. Since 2010 he was opposition spokesman for the Home Office and International Development Assistance.

Brett was a member of several Lords Select Committees . From 2007 to 2008 he was a member of the “Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee” and in 2008 the “Statutory Instruments Joint Committee”.

family

Brett married Jean Valerie Cooper in 1961. They divorced in 1986. In 1994 he was married to Janet Winters in his second marriage. The divorce took place in 2006. He had a son and a daughter with his first wife and two daughters with his second wife. Most recently he lived and worked in London .

Further offices and honors

From 1964 to 1968 he was a member ( Councilor ) of the City Council of the London Borough of Lewisham . Brett became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 1994 . In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from Sullivan University in Louisville , where he became an Honorary Senior Fellow .

Publications

  • International Labor in the 21st Century: The ILO, Monument to the Past or Beacon for the Future? London: European Policy Institute, 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Opposition Front Bench ( Memento June 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Official website of the Labor Party
  2. ↑ http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/search/results/2521/William Henry Brett + BRETT.aspx (link not available)
personal data
SURNAME Brett, William, Baron Brett
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brett, William Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Labor) and economic manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Heywood
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2012