- Brenda Dean
Infobox Politician
honorific-prefix =The Right Honourable
name = The Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde
honorific-suffix =
PC
imagesize =
caption =
birth_date = Birth date and age|1943|04|29|df=y
birth_place =
death_date =
death_place =
nationality = British
party = Labour
spouse =
relations =
children =
alma_mater =
occupation =Peer andTrade union ist
profession =
religion =
website =
footnotes =Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde PC (born
29 April 1943 ) is a Britishtrade union ist.Born in
Salford , she began her career as atrade unionist as a teenager and was elected as General President of the print unionSOGAT 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 ofGreater 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 theHousing 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 ofRupert 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]
*Rayment
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.