Before joining the TUC in 1994, O’Grady worked for the TGWU union (now part of Unite) from 1989 where she worked on successful campaigns to stop the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board and for the introduction of a national minimum wage. Prior to working for the TGWU, she was a union activist in the charity sector.
andidate nominated by 32 of the TUC’s 54 affiliates. She is the first woman to be elected to the post since the TUC was created in 1868. However, she continues the tradition of the general secretary coming from within the TUC and being elected without any rival candidates. Nonetheless, she is relatively young at the age of 52 to take up the position. By Gregor Gall, Research Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Work and Employment Research Unit (WERU), University of Hertfordshi
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