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Brenda Dean
British trade unionist and Labour Party politician
Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, PC, FRSA (29 April 1943 – 13 March 2018)[1][2] was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician.[3] As general secretary of SOGAT from 1985 until 1991, she was "the first woman elected to head a major industrial trade union."[4]
Early life
She was born in Salford; her father was a railway signalman and her mother worked in a carpet factory.
When she was a child the family moved to Eccles, and she attended Stretford High School for Girls.[4]
Trade union career
She began her career as a trade unionist as a teenager,[3] initially as a member of the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers.
In 1972 she became assistant secretary of the Manchester branch of the print union SOGAT (Society of Graphical and Allied Trades), and became involved in negotiations over the introduc