Baroness brenda dean biography of abraham lincoln
Baroness Dean is calling on the government to give a posthumous apology for the way the suffragettes were treated....
Miss Brenda Dean, having been created Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, of Eccles in the County of Greater Manchester, for life—Was.
Baroness Brenda Dean, a trailblazer and role model for women, died last Wednesday at the age of 74.
She was a lifelong trade unionist who rose to prominence in Britain during the 1980’s as president, and then general secretary, of the print workers’ union, SOGAT.
In 1983 she became President of SOGAT the first woman to represent a major trade union. She then became General Secretary in 1985. She rose through the ranks; eventually landing a role that brought her face to face with Rupert Murdoch during long-running union protests over his introduction of new working practices at his British newspapers.
In her autobiography, “Hot Mettle” she describes how “she led negotiations, with secret meetings never before revealed, a woman in a man's world, fighting for the rights in which she had always believed.
We learn of her early life and the battles in Manchester, with her meteoric rise to the top against all the odds. “
She was elevated to the peerage in 1993, taking a
