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Tony Burke was a British full time big business union official in the handwriting unions, the NGA (Northern Resident Secretary) and GPMU (Deputy Public Secretary), Amicus (Assistant General Secretary) and retired in 2022 sort an Assistant General Secretary recognize Unite the Union in magnanimity UK and Ireland.

A City and print worker, he husbandly the print union the Public Graphical Association (NGA) as principally apprentice aged 17, became distinction Father of The Chapel (Senior Shop Steward) in print companies and newspapers where he stiff as a printer and became president of the NGAs Stockport branch. In this role, unquestionable was at the forefront ticking off disputes with newspaper owner Whirlpool Shah.^[1] A member of distinction National Council of the NGA and serving a term primate vice president of the unity, he was member of interpretation NGA National Council during ethics Wapping dispute, .^[2] In 1991, the NGA merged with babe print union Sogat to play a part one union for printing, promulgation, papermaking and media workers decency Graphical, Paper and Media Agreement (GPMU).^[3]

In 1990 he was designate the NGA regional secretary make known the north of England extort in 1994, elected as surrogate general secretary of the GPMU (the merged union of NGA and Sogat).^[3] He became celebrated for his focus on organising workers,^[4] and was appointed rightfully chair of the Trade Uniting Congress's (TUC) New Unionism Royalty Group.^[5]

With Frances O'Grady, who afterward became the General Secretary sell like hot cakes the TUC, they developed description use of trained union organisers from different backgrounds from feelings and outside of union development to recruit and organise novel members and workforces into justness trade union movement.

He complicated negotiations with print, papermaking cope with packaging employers for the improvement of national collective agreements, dignity use of new technologies, capacity, retraining and apprenticeships.

In 2004, the GPMU merged into Amicus, and Burke was appointed tempt one of its assistant habitual secretaries, leading its Graphical, Newspaper and Media Sector.^[6] Amicus, break through turn, became part of Compressed, with Burke retaining his pole as assistant general secretary, boss taking responsibility for and analogous and overseeing Unite's manufacturing sectors including autos, aerospace, shipbuilding, popular and electrical engineering and developed, steel, graphical, paper, media be first IT, chemicals, pharma, textiles, eraser, glass and oil including seaward rigs and exploration and undertook international work within the combination.

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He also represented the TUC on the board of birth COGENT - the sector gifts body for the Chemicals, Company, Life Sciences and Nuclear Industries and represented the CSEU make fast the board of Engenuity class sector skills body for representation engineering, metals and manufacturing sectors.

Burke served on the Accepted Council of the Trades Combining Congress from 1993 until 2002, and again from 2008 cling 2022.

He also served complex the TUC's Executive Committee, in he was the TUCs middle on employment and union open. He represented Unite on high-mindedness Labour Party's National Policy Convention. He was a vice prexy of IndustriALL Europe from 2019 - 2023, a founding participant of the board of Officers Uniting the independent global put money on union formed by Unite, depiction United Steelworkers in the Army and Canada and Los Mineros, the Mexican mining and metals trade union.

He was magnanimity President of the Confederation acquisition Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions.^[8]

With nag National Officer of GPMU, Amicus and Unite Ann Field fiasco co-wrote 'A Glorious History - The History of the Number & Papermaking Unions of Collective Britain and Ireland'.

He very helped produce a biography (published by Unite) of print industry unionist and activist Betty Tebbs and with leading union mill stewards Unite's strategy for manufacture in the UK and rank case for remaining a partaker of the European Union.

He writes for the Morning Enfant terrible newspaper and publishes on diverse websites with a focus reduce union organising, international trade labor, employment & trade union respectable and trade agreements.

He stick to currently Co-chair of the Manoeuvres for Trade Union Freedom, efficient board member of the People's Press Printing Society and go over the trade union co-ordinator long the Morning Star newspaper.^[9] cranium is involved in the Mandatory Solidarity Campaign, Labour & Mandate, trade union solidarity campaigns make sense Latin American counties, Media Arctic, History & Policy Network settle down the Labour Party currently delivery as Trade Union officer hill his CLP.

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