Byron Taylor

Byron Taylor is currently the National Officer of TULO - the Trade Union and Labour Party Liaison Organisation and has been in post since 2002.

At TULO his strategy has been to bring together the trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party, and to speak with one voice in their relationship with the Labour Party. This has been widely successful - within the National Executive Committee and National Policy Forum the representatives of the affiliated trade unions now work closely together to promote common aims and policies. This policy of closer engagement has brought results for the trade union movement. The Warwick Agreement (2004) was achieved through the combination of the affiliated trade unions within the policy process of the Labour Party. It covered a diverse range of policies, but was particularly focused on employment and economic policies, and was fully integrated into the 2005 Labour Manifesto.

Prior to this role he was a union officer for the Manufacturing, Science, and Finance (MSF) trade union, working with manufacturing and aerospace industries in the South West. He led the MSF campaign to keep the Xerox factory in the Forest of Dean open when it was threatened with offshoring, and helped to retain the repair facilities onsite. He was also successful in challenging the redundancy programme of Smiths Aerospace, winning substantial compensation for the workers that had been unfairly dismissed.

During the 1990s, he was an election organiser for the Labour Party in London and the West Midlands.

Educated at the University of Wolverhampton, he trained for an Army Officership before becoming disillusioned with the Army.