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| − | [[File:John gallagher ray collins.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Ray Collins (right) with [[John Gallagher]], mayor of Ealing, at a CHE meeting, 8 October 2011]]'''Ray Collins''', Baron Collins of Highbury, born ca. 1955, is a British trade unionist and Labour politician. | + | [[File:John gallagher ray collins.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Ray Collins (right) with [[John Gallagher]], mayor of Ealing, at a [[CHE meeting]], 8 October 2011]]'''Ray Collins''', Baron Collins of Highbury, born ca. 1955, is a British trade unionist and Labour politician. |
Ray Collins held leading positions in the Transport and General Workers Union from 1984 to 1998, and helped to steer the TGWU into a merger with the Amicus union to create Unite. | Ray Collins held leading positions in the Transport and General Workers Union from 1984 to 1998, and helped to steer the TGWU into a merger with the Amicus union to create Unite. | ||
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[[Category:Pride Power List 2011|22]] | [[Category:Pride Power List 2011|22]] | ||
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Revision as of 17:10, 17 October 2011
Ray Collins held leading positions in the Transport and General Workers Union from 1984 to 1998, and helped to steer the TGWU into a merger with the Amicus union to create Unite.
He was General Secretary of the Labour party from 2008 to 2011. He became a life peer in 2011, and was later appointed a Labour whip in the House of Lords.
He was listed number 22 in the Pride Power List 2011.
