词条 | Rita Donaghy, Baroness Donaghy |
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Rita Margaret Donaghy, Baroness Donaghy, CBE, FRSA (born 9 October 1944) is a British university administrator, trade unionist and Labour life peer in the House of Lords. A graduate of the University of Durham, Donaghy worked at the Institute of Education, University of London, as an Assistant Registrar and later as Permanent Secretary to the Students' Union. She became active in the trade union NALGO, becoming a member of its National Executive by 1973 and serving as President for 1989/90. She was a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress from 1989—representing NALGO which merged to become UNISON in 1993—and was TUC President in 2000. In October 2000 she left her trade union positions on being appointed as Chair of the industrial conciliation service ACAS, a post she held until 2007.[1] She served on the Committee on Standards in Public Life (Nolan Committee) from 2001 until 2007,[2] briefly as Chair after Sir Alistair Graham's three-year term ended.[3] She was a member of the Low Pay Commission[4] and the Employment Tribunal Taskforce and chaired the TUC Disabilities Forum.[5] In 2009, Donaghy was invited to chair an enquiry into work-related deaths in the construction industry, whose report published in 2010 contained many recommendations for improving safety in the industry.[6] HonoursDonaghy was awarded the OBE in 1998 for services to industrial relations, and CBE in 2005 for services to employment relations. She has Honorary Doctorates from the Open University (2003), Keele University (2004) and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717134617/http://www.greenwich.ac.uk/pr/pressreleases/A1094.htm the University of Greenwich (2005)]. In 2003 she was awarded a Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, followed in 2004 by Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). It was announced in the 2010 Dissolution Honours List that Donaghy would be created a life peer.[7] She was created Baroness Donaghy, of Peckham in the London Borough of Southwark, on 26 June 2010. References1. ^ACAS Annual Report 2007/08 {{s-start}}{{s-npo|union}}{{succession box2. ^Annual Report 2006 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716233150/http://www.public-standards.gov.uk/Library/OurWork/AnnualReport2006.pdf |date=16 July 2011 }} 3. ^Downing Street press release 4. ^Low Pay Commission Welcomes Historic Introduction Of National Minimum Wage {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720102942/http://www.lowpay.gov.uk/lowpay/press_p.htm |date=20 July 2011 }} 5. ^Acas annual report 2004/05 6. ^Government Responds To Donaghy Report Into Construction Deaths {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716224934/http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/35136 |date=16 July 2011 }}, Department for Work And Pensions, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 7. ^{{London Gazette|issue=59459|supp=y|page=11151|date=15 June 2010}} | title = President of the Trades Union Congress | years = 2000 | before = Hector MacKenzie | after = Bill Morris }}{{succession box | title = Chair of Acas | years = 2000–2007 | before = John Hougham | after = Ed Sweeney }}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Donaghy, Rita Donaghy, Baroness}} 12 : 1944 births|Living people|Alumni of Durham University|Female life peers|Labour Party (UK) life peers|British trade unionists|Commanders of the Order of the British Empire|Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress|People from Peckham|Presidents of the Trades Union Congress|Place of birth missing (living people)|Women trade unionists |
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