Brenda Dean

Brenda Dean

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name = The Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde
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nationality = British
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Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde PC (born 29 April 1943) is a British trade unionist.

Born in Salford, she began her career as a trade unionist as a teenager and was elected as General President of the print union SOGAT in 1983 and General Secretary in 1985. She was the first British woman to lead a major craft or industrial trade union.

She became a life peer in October 1993 as Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, of Eccles in the County of Greater Manchester, and a Privy Councillor in 1998.

She has been a member of numerous public bodies and committees, and served as Vice-Chair of the University College London Hospitals NHS Trust from 1994 until 1998, when she was appointed to Chair the Housing Corporation. She is currently serving her second three year term as Chairman of Covent Garden Market Authority, a post she has held since 1 April 2005.

She is the author of "Hot Mettle", an autobiography (due for publication February 2007) dealing largely with her time as General Secretary of SOGAT at the time of Rupert Murdoch's battles with that and other trades unions.

References

* [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/m.gratton/Salford%20Women%20-%20A-Z/Salford%20Women%20-%20B.htm Salford's famous women]
* [http://www.politicospublishing.co.uk/titles.php/itemcode/91.htm Hot Mettle]
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