Doug McAvoy

Doug McAvoy (2 January 1939 – 12 May 2019) was a British trade union leader. He was General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers from 1989 to 2004.

A teacher, McAvoy was secretary of Newcastle-upon-Tyne NUT and became a member of the National Executive of the Union in 1970. He was appointed Deputy General-Secretary designate in 1974, a post he held until 1989 when he became the first directly elected General Secretary in 1989.

References

External links
Interview: Teachers' leader Doug McAvoy BBC News 22 April 2000
'McAvoy warns over union militants' BBC News June 23, 1999
'Furious McAvoy walks out of NUT meeting' The Independent 29 May 2004

Category:1939 births
Category:2019 deaths
Category:General Secretaries of the National Union of Teachers
Category:Schoolteachers from Northumberland
Category:English trade unionists
Category:Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress