Maggie Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

Who is Maggie Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch?

Margaret Beryl Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch is a British trade union official and Labour politician. She was Chair of the Labour Party from 2000 to 2001.

Jones is Director of Policy and Public Affairs of the trade union UNISON. In 1979 she became a regional official of National Union of Public Employees, which merged into UNISON. She has a background of fighting low pay and discrimination at work. She is on the boards of the charities Shelter and the Empty Homes Agency, both of which campaign for affordable housing for all, in conjunction with which she is chairperson of the Board of Directors of Circle 33 housing trust. In 2005 Jones was appointed to the board of the School Food Trust, a new public body.

Jones was born and brought up in South Wales, and was educated at Whitchurch High School in Cardiff and then the University of Sussex. She now lives in Brighton.