Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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George Jerrom: ‘the best general secretary print never had’
Remembering a working-class communist intellectual, internationalist and giant of the union movement in the print industry
George Jerrom
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GEORGE JERROM, former national officer of the National Graphical Association (NGA) and its successor the Graphical, Paper and Media Union (GPMU), was a leading communist working in print and the print unions.
A long-time member of the Communist Party, secretary of the party’s print advisory committee, his influence and experience earned him support from fellow trade unionists, printers and journalists.
A warm, approachable man with a brilliant ability to dissect problems, he had a major influence on some of print’s defining industrial disputes during the 1980s.
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