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Outgoing Usdaw general secretary John Hannett
SHOPWORKERS leader John Hannett retired as the general secretary of Usdaw today.
Mr Hannett, who has been the union’s general secretary since 2004, say that he is “confident” that under the new leadership of Paddy Lillis, who was elected unopposed in November, the union will go from “strength to strength.”
In his time as the head of Usdaw, Mr Hannett oversaw a 50 per cent increase in the union’s membership, bucking the trend of the national decline of trade unions.
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