Alec Smith (trade unionist)

Alec Smith is a former British trade unionist.

Smith studied with the Clothing Institute in 1958, before becoming prominent in the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers (NUTGW).[1] By the mid-1970s, he was Assistant Secretary of the union, and he was elected as General Secretary of the NUTGW in 1979.[2]

In 1991, Smith led the union into a merger with the GMB Union,[3] He then became National Officer of the GMB, and served a term as President of the Trades Union Congress.[4]

References

  1. Clothing Institute Journal, vol.24-25, p.40
  2. Report from Affiliated Organisations: International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation World Congress (1979), p.210
  3. Anne J. Kershen, Uniting the Tailors, p.xiv
  4. Phoenix: The Journal of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, No.18-23, p.82
Trade union offices
Preceded by
Jack Macgougan
General Secretary of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers
19791991
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Preceded by
Jack Macgougan
Clothing Group representative on the General Council of the TUC
1979 1982
Succeeded by
Council reorganised
Preceded by
Fred Jarvis
Trades Union Congress representative to the AFL-CIO
1989
Succeeded by
Ada Maddocks
Preceded by
Ada Maddocks
President of the Trades Union Congress
1991
Succeeded by
Rodney Bickerstaffe
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