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The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is a trade union in the United Kingdom, consisting of over 360,000 members. [3] Usdaw members work in a variety of occupations and industries including: shopworkers, factory and warehouse workers, drivers, call centres, clerical workers, milkround and dairy process, butchers and meat packers, catering, laundries, chemical processing ...
NACO historically represented professionals and management in the sector, with general unions, principally the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW), recruiting among shop-floor and administrative workers. In the 2010s, NACO began, with the support of Co-operatives UK, to widen its base and end the division between 'officials ...
John Hannett, Baron Hannett of Everton, OBE (born 23 June 1953) is a British trade unionist and formerly General Secretary of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW). [1] He was appointed a member of the House of Lords in 2024.
The union was founded in 1921 when the Amalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees merged with the National Union of Warehouse and General Workers.The Co-operative Insurance Staff Union split in 1922, but several small unions joined during the 1920s, and membership reached 96,000 by 1926, rising to 274,000 in 1946, the year that the Journeymen Butchers' Federation of Great Britain joined.
In 1969 he became a full-time trade union official with USDAW and rose through the ranks, becoming General Secretary of the union in 1986. [3] He retired in 1997. [3] Davies was named CBE in 1996 and created a life peer as Baron Davies of Coity, of Penybont in the County of Mid Glamorgan on 1 October 1997.
Official time is a practice protected by federal law that allows federal employees to do certain union activities while being paid by the federal government, and therefore, on the taxpayer dime.
Sir William Joseph Connor (born 21 May 1941) is a former British trade unionist, Labour politician and General Secretary of USDAW. Connor was a former leader of the Labour group on West Lancashire Council. In 1997, he was elected General Secretary of USDAW, a position he retained until he retired in 2004. [citation needed]
After the war, Whatley joined the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW), becoming a full-time area organiser in Bristol in 1948. He was promoted to National Officer in 1966 and Chief Organising Officer in 1976, becoming third most senior official in the union. [1] [2]