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A BOOK about Mohammad Taj, the first South Asian Muslim to become president of the TUC, is to be published next week.
Mr Taj was a long-serving Bradford bus driver when he was elected for the year 2013-14.
The 20,000-word book, titled Steering from the Front, was written by Mark Metcalf and produced by the education section of Mr Taj’s union Unite.
It details his upbringing in a village in Kashmir before he settled and worked in England in textile mills and on the buses, where, he says, “discriminatory practices against black and Asian workers were commonplace.”
In a foreword to the book Unite assistant general secretary Diana Holland says: “I am proud to pay this tribute to a very special person, who has achieved so much himself.
“But above all, Mohammad Taj’s legacy is in others — black, Asian ethnic-minority men and women workers and trade unionists as a powerful progressive force in the country and today’s workers having confidence that, in the struggle against injustice, they are not alone.”
The book launch takes place at Bradford City Hall next Thursday (October 11) at 6pm.