Anita Gale, Baroness Gale

Anita Gale, Baroness Gale of Blaenrhondda ( born November 28, 1940 in Blaenrhondda, Glamorgan ) is a British politician ( Labour Party ) and member of the House of Lords.

Life

1955/56, Gale worked as a seamstress, then as a shop assistant and then as a seamstress. She joined the Labour Party in 1966 and was from 1967 to 1970 Works Council for the Textile Workers' Union ( Tailors and Garment Workers Union). From 1976 she devoted herself to the party's work, first. Than deputy organizer and full-time women's representative in Wales from 1984 to 1989 as general secretary of the Welsh Labour Party Following the resignation of their party offices was 1999 Life Peer as Baroness Gale of Blaenrhondda raised in the County of Mid Glamorgan. In the upper house, she was a member of various committees and groups, including animal welfare, health and public welfare. From 2004 to 2009 she was Commissioner for Wales in the Women's National Commission. Since 2009 she is deputy chairman of the South Africa Group, since 2010 President of the National Association of Old Age Pensioners of Wales.

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  • Profile of Anita Gale at parliament.uk (English)
  • Profile of Anita Gale at Debrett's (English)
  • Member of the House of Lords
  • Life peer
  • Labour Member
  • Politicians ( 20th century)
  • Politicians ( 21st century)
  • Politicians (Wales )
  • Unionists ( United Kingdom)
  • Briton
  • Born in 1940
  • Woman
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