Davey Hall

British trade unionist

Davey Hall (born 1951) is a British trade unionist.

Hall worked as an engineer at the Swan Hunter shipbuilding yard. He joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), and became a shop steward.[1] In 1988, he became the union's Tyne district secretary.[2]

The AEU became part of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU), and Hall served as its president from 1995 to 1998;[3] although he was a supporter of Tony Blair, he was described as the union's most left-wing president since Hugh Scanlon.[2] The AEEU then merged into Amicus, which in turn became part of Unite, with Hall serving as its regional secretary for the North East, Yorkshire and Humberside.[1] He took early retirement in 2011, but later began working for the Prospect trade union, in a similar post.

## References

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1. ^ a b "Unite union rep Davey Hall retires after tough years Archived 5 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine", Newcastle Journal, 1 February 2011
2. ^ a b "Outsider breaks right's stranglehold on the AEEU", The Herald, 5 December 1995
3. ^ Undy, Roger (2008). Trade union merger strategies: purpose, process, and performance. Oxford University Press. pp. 201–202. ISBN 978-0-19-954494-3.

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Preceded by

John Weakley

|  President of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union
1996–1998  |  Succeeded by

Position abolished

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