Jeannie Drake, Baroness Drake

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Jean Lesley Patricia Drake, Baroness Drake, CBE (born 16 January 1948) is a British trade unionist and Labour life peer in the House of Lords. [1]

After attending university, Drake worked as a research officer at the National Union of Public Employees, before moving to the Civil and Public Services Association in 1976. She was a Deputy General Secretary of the National Communications Union and, following a merger in 1995, she held the same position in the Communication Workers Union until 2008. During her tenure, she was President of the Trades Union Congress in 2005. [2]

Drake serves as a trustee of the O2 and Alliance & Leicester pension funds and has been a board member of the Pension Protection Fund since 2004, as well as other bodies in the pension sector. She has also served as a member of the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

She was a commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission from 2006 to 2009.

On 20 June 2010, she was created a life peer as Baroness Drake, of Shene in the County of Surrey . [3]

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References

  1. Baroness Drake
  2. Women in Power Profile
  3. "No. 59468". The London Gazette . 24 June 2010. p. 11913.
Trade union offices
Preceded by President of the Trades Union Congress
2005
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