GFTU BGCM 2017

John and Carol Fray, John is immediate past President of the GFTU, long serving EC member and former Vice Chair of Ruskin College and Assistant General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists. He is currently a director of the trading company that runs the hotel. John was a toolmaker by trade and an active member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. He went to Ruskin College and from there worked at the Income Data Services and then BECTU and then the NUJ. Dr Stephen French, completed both his undergraduate degree and MA in History and Politics at the University of East Anglia and subsequently worked in the Inland Revenue, where he was lay activist in the IRSF union (now the Public and Commercial Services Union, PCS). He then moved to Birmingham University, where he completed his PhD (examining German collective bargaining after unification) in 1999. Prior to joining the staff at Keele in September 2000, he worked both as a Research Assistant at the LSE and as a Lecturer in Industrial Relations at the University of Warwick. He is an Academic MCIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development). Steve attended the GFTU Summit in 2015 and gave a presentation at the GFTU union building conference in 2016 on performance management. He is active in his local Trade Union Council and will be tutoring on various GFTU Courses in the coming period. Prof. Keith Gildart, Professor of Labour and Social History, Wolverhampton University. After working as an underground coal miner for seven years he studied at the universities of Manchester and York. His research interests are focused on nineteenth/twentieth century British history, labour movements, working class politics, youth culture and popular music. Keith has published widely on British labour history, most notably a monograph on the North Wales Miners and numerous articles and edited collections on coal mining history. Keith is an editor of the multi-volume 'Dictionary of Labour Biography', for which he has contributed entries on British Labour Members of Parliament and important trade union figures. His most recent book is 'Images of England through Popular Music: Class, Youth and Rock ‘n’ Roll, 1955-1976' (Palgrave, 2013). He is currently working on a monograph titled 'Keeping the Faith: A History of Northern Soul' (Manchester University Press) and a project on the industrial and political culture of mining communities in post-war Britain. He has appeared on television documentaries for the BBC, commentated on news items on radio, and for the local and national press. John Harris , photographer, John recently put on loan to Quorn Grange Hotel some of his iconic labour movement photographs. John runs Reportdigital a company specialising in progressive socialphotography and trade union and campaigning issues. John Hendy QC, without doubt John is best known for his work in industrial relations and employment law, having appeared in most of the UK's leading collective labour law cases in the last 36 years. John has taken 9 cases to the

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