Vic Feather

Victor " Vic" Grayson Hardie ( Hardy ) Feather, Baron Feather, of the City of Bradford CBE ( born April 10, 1908 in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, † 28 July 1976) was a British trade union official between, among others, in 1969 and 1973, the Secretary-General of the trades Union Congress (TUC ), the umbrella organization of British unions was, and in 1974 was as a life peer, due to the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords.

Life

Feather, who was named by his parents after 1907 for the Independent Labour Party (ILP ) in the constituency of Colne Valley to the deputies elected to the House of Commons politician Victor Grayson, started after seeing the Hanson Grammar School in Bradford in 1922 as a fourteen year old a professional activity and joined shortly afterwards at the shop Workers' Union, the Union of retail employees. As early as 1923 he was steward of his union and in 1929 chairman of the branch committee of the Shop Workers' Union.

1937 Feather has employees in the central administration of the union Union Congress and served there 1947-1960, first as Secretary of assistive before he became successor in 1960 by George Woodcock as Vice - Secretary General of the Trades Union Congress. For his services within the labor movement In 1961 he was Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE).

After Woodcock retired after subsequent nine years as general secretary of the TUC in 1969, Feather became his successor and held the function of the Secretary of the Trades Union Congress until 1973. In this capacity he organized the resistance within the trade union movement against the adoption of the Industrial Relations Act 1971 by the government of Prime Minister Edward Heath. During this time he was repeatedly part of documentaries about the British policy during the crucial years of the Labour Party government under Prime Minister Harold Wilson to the Government of the Conservative Party under Prime Minister Heath after the general election of June 18, 1970.

In 1973, he was replaced as General Secretary of the TUC by Len Murray, who had in 1969 succeeded him as Vice - Secretary General. Feather even then first chairman was founded on February 9, 1973 the European Trade Union Confederation ( ETUC), but this function is handed a year later at Heinz Oskar Vetter, who had been one of the three vice-presidents of the ETUC.

Feather was, to which he belonged by Letters Patent dated 6 March 1974 as a life peer with the title Baron Feather, of the City of Bradford member of the House of Lords until his death.