Anne Gibson, Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen

Who is Anne Gibson, Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen?

Anne Gibson, Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen OBE is a British trade unionist and author of several pamphlets about industrial laws.

The daughter of Harry and Jessie Tasker, she was educated at Market Rasen Junior School and Caistor Grammar School in Lincolnshire. She was further educated at the Chelmsford College of Further Education and the University of Essex, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in government in 1976.

Gibson worked first as secretary from 1956 to 1959 and then as bank cashier until 1966. Between 1966 and 1970, she was organiser of the Labour Party of Saffron Walden. In 1976 and 1977, she was employed by the House Magazine. From 1977 to 1987, Gibson was assistant secretary of the Organisation and Industrial Relations Department of the Trade Union Congress and from 1987 to 2000 national secretary of Manufacturing Science and Finance. From 1989 to 2000, she was member of the TUC General Council and from 1991 to 1998 of the Equal Opportunities Commission. Between 1993 and 1996, she was also member of the Department of Employment Advisory Group for Older Workers and between 1996 and 2000 of the Health and Safety Commission.