Davey Hall
Davey Hall (born 1951) is a British trade unionist.
Hall worked as an engineer at the Swan Hunter shipbuilding yard. He joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), and became a shop steward.[1] In 1988, he became the union's Tyne district secretary.[2]
The AEU became part of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU), and Hall served as its president from 1995 to 1998;[3] although he was a supporter of Tony Blair, he was described as the union's most left-wing president since Hugh Scanlon.[2] The AEEU then merged into Amicus, which in turn became part of Unite, with Hall serving as its regional secretary for the North East, Yorkshire and Humberside.[1] He took early retirement in 2011, but later began working for the Prospect trade union, in a similar post.
References
- ^ a b "Unite union rep Davey Hall retires after tough years", Newcastle Journal, 1 February 2011
- ^ a b "Outsider breaks right's stranglehold on the AEEU", The Herald, 5 December 1995
- ^ Undy, Roger (2008). Trade union merger strategies: purpose, process, and performance. Oxford University Press. pp. 201–202. ISBN 978-0-19-954494-3.