Brendan Barber

Brendan Paul Barber ( born April 3, 1951 in Southport, Merseyside ) is a British trade union official since 2003 and General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC ), the umbrella organization of British unions.

Life

After attending St Mary's College in Crosby, he made a voluntary year as a substitute teacher in the Volta Region of Ghana and then studied Social Sciences at City University London, from which he graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts with honors (BA Hons. ).

After he followed one year for the training unit of the glass and ceramics industry worked, he was the 1975 political TUC staff and in 1979 Head of the Press and Information Department. In 1987 he became the successor of John Monks as head of the Department of Organization and Industrial Relations, which he followed as Deputy Secretary General of the TUC in 1993.

In 2003 he followed Monks finally as General Secretary of the TUC. In this capacity he organized in November 2011 an extensive strike of the trade union federation to which he had carefully worked with early warnings against the savings of the conservative-liberal government of Prime Minister David Cameron. He was looking in contrast to other union officials like Bob Crow, the general secretary of the Transport Workers Union ( National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers ), for broader concerns to justify the strike.

Swell

  • Brendan Barber: Has learned. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 1, 2011, p 10
  • Unionists ( United Kingdom)
  • Knight Bachelor
  • Briton
  • Born in 1951
  • Man
Liberal Party (UK)
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