PrintWeek Printing World Print Buyer Packaging News

in

Unite Viewpoint

Albert Carr Dies Suddenly

I am sure many people in the industry will be sad to learn of the sudden death of on Saturday 8th March of Unite Regional Officer Albert Carr.

Albert was a full time Unite official who covered the print and packaging sector in the Birmingham and West Midlands area for over 15 years.

He was aged 62. Albert was previously an NGA FOC at the Birmingham Post & Mail, a member of the NGA National Council, a full time officer with the NGA, GPMU, Amicus and Unite in Birmingham and the West Midlands.

Albert was a dedicated FOC. When I first met him he was the NGA FOC in the origination department at the Birmingham Post & Mail. He was proud to be a full time officer of the previous print unions, Amicus and Unite. Albert always worked hard to look after our members in the printing industry, and was at the forefront of changes in technology that affected our members in the 1980s.

All of his colleagues in Unite will miss him and we send our deepest sympathy to his wife and family.

Published Mar 10 2008, 11:32 AM by Tony Burke
Filed under:

Comments

No Comments

About Tony Burke

Tony Burke is an Assistant General Secretary at the UK and Ireland's biggest trade union, Unite the Union. Unite was formed on 1st May, 2007 by a merger of Amicus and TGWU. He heads up the Unite GPM sector, leading a team of experienced full time National and Regional Officers covering the Print, Paper, Packaging, Newspapers, Publishing and Media industries. Tony was Deputy General Secretary of the print, paper and media union the GPMU until it merged, with the skills and professional union Amicus in 2004. Tony is a member of the General Council and Executive Committee of the TUC and also a number of senior committee’s of the global union Union Network International (UNI) Graphical; a member of the Executive Committee of the European Chemical, Energy and Mineworkers Federation; the chair of the TUC's Organising Academy Board; a member of the board of Vision In Print And Packaging and a trade union appointed member of the board of COGENT - the sector skills council for the Chemical, Oil, Pharmaceutical, Energy and Nuclear Industries. He is also a member of the Board Of Management of The Peoples Press Printing Society. This blog will contain news from Unite, graphical, paper and media unions throughout Europe and the world and news and comment on industrial relations issues important to Unite members, managers and our industries. Feel free to comment on the issues that are posted here.