Geburtsdatum | Samstag, 28. Oktober 1950 |
Geburtsort | Keresley |
Todesdatum | Freitag, 01. Mai 2020 |
Sternzeichen | |
Beschreibung | Graham Stevenson (28 October 1950 - 1 May 2020) was a British communist, trade union leader, and historian who specialised in the history of British socialist and labour activist biographies. He led a career as one of the most influential trade union leaders in Britain, becoming the national secretary of the TGWU IN 1999, and as a founder and later president in 2009 of the European Transport Union Federation, he helped organise strikes across European docks in 2003, forcing the European Union to stall privatisation plans. Between 2007 and 2008, Stevenson played a key part in the negotiations that formed Unite the Union, the largest trade union in the United Kingdom. He also served on the Executive and Political Committee of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB), and served as the treasurer |
