Tony Dubbins
Trade unionist, Person
Who is Tony Dubbins?
Tony Dubbins was a prominent British trade unionist until his retirement from Unite in 2008.
He first became a full-time union official in the National Graphical Association and became general secretary in 1984, leading the union through the Wapping dispute.
The NGA merged with the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades in 1990. Dubbins won the subsequent election against Brenda Dean, SOGAT's General Secretary, to become the first, and only, general secretary of the Graphical, Paper and Media Union.
Following the GPMU's merger with Amicus in 2004, he became Deputy General Secretary. Amicus then merged with the Transport & General Workers Union in May 2007 to form Unite.
He was president of the Trades Union Congress in 1997 and chairman of the Trade Union & Labour Party Liaison Organisation until 2008.
Dubbins is a keen West Ham United supporter.
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