Winifred Baddeley
Winifred Baddeley (1904 or 1905 – 20 July 1972) was a British trade unionist.
Born in Sale, then in Cheshire,[1] Baddeley worked for many years as an electrical coil winder at the Associated Electrical Industries works in Old Trafford.[2] She joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) and gradually rose through the ranks, becoming a shop steward in 1941, then branch chair, chair of the women's works committee, and district representative.[1]
Baddeley was regarded as being on the right wing of the trade union movement,[2] although she campaigned strongly for equal pay for women, and argued that women's marginality in trade unions was partly due to the attitudes of many male trade unionists.[3]
In 1963, Baddeley attended the Trades Union Congress (TUC) for this first time, and was immediately elected to the General Council of the TUC; she was the first women who was not a full-time official to serve on the council.[2] During this period, she chaired the TUC's Women's Advisory Committee. She retired in 1968.[1]
In her spare time, Baddeley served as a magistrate, and on her Local Employment Committee. She married in 1963 and, unusually for the time, retained her maiden name.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Winifred Baddeley", Report of the 104th Annual Trades Union Congress, p.310
- 1 2 3 "Elected to TUC Council", The Guardian, 4 September 1963
- ↑ Suzanne Franzway and Mary Margaret Fonow, Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances Between Women and Labor, p.111
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Preceded by Anne Godwin and Ellen McCullough |
Women Workers member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress 1963 – 1968 With: Marie Patterson |
Succeeded by Marie Patterson and Audrey Prime |