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Brendan Barber

British trade union official (born 1951)

The Right Honourable The Lord Barber of Ainsdale
Official portrait, 2025

Chair of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
In office 2014–2020
Minister	Vince Cable Sajid Javid Greg Clark Andrea Leadsom Alok Sharma Kwasi Kwarteng Jacob Rees-Mogg
Preceded by	Ed Sweeney
Succeeded by	Claire Chapman
10th General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress
In office 2003–2012
Preceded by	John Monks
Succeeded by	Frances O'Grady
Deputy General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress
In office 1993–2003
Preceded by	John Monks
Succeeded by	Frances O'Grady
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage 20 January 2025

Personal details
Born	Brendan Paul Barber (1951-04-03) 3 April 1951 (age 75) Southport, England
Party	Labour
Alma mater	City, University of London

Brendan Paul Barber, Baron Barber of Ainsdale (born 3 April 1951), is a British trade union official and life peer. He served as chair of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) Council until 2020. He is a former general secretary of the United Kingdom's Trades Union Congress (TUC); a post he held from June 2003 until his retirement at the end of 2012. He was appointed Acas Chair in 2014, replacing Ed Sweeney, who had been in the post since 2007. He also serves on the board of the Banking Standards Board (since 2015), the Board of Transport for London (2013–), the board of Britain Stronger in Europe (since 2015), the Council of City University, London and the board of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts (since 2014).

Early life and education

Barber was born on 3 April 1951 in Southport, Lancashire, and educated at St Mary's College, Sefton (then a direct grant grammar school). Between school and university, he spent a year with VSO teaching in the Volta Region of Ghana. At City, University of London, he earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in social sciences in 1974, then spent the next year as the president of the students' union.^[1]

Career

He spent a year as a researcher for the Ceramics, Glass and Mineral Products Industry Training Board based in Harrow.^[1]

Trades Union Congress

In 1975. he began working at the TUC^[2] as a policy officer. In 1979, he became the head of the TUC's Press and Information Department. In 1987, he became head of the Organisation and Industrial Relations Department and in 1993 he became deputy general secretary.^[1]

He became General Secretary of the TUC in June 2003. On 18 April 2012, he announced his retirement, enabling a successor to be elected in September at Trades Union Congress 2012.^[3] Frances O'Grady was elected his successor.^[4]

Awards

In 2007, Barber was given an Award of Doctor of Science honoris causa by City University London. He was knighted in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to employment relations.^[5]^[6]

House of Lords

Barber was nominated for a life peerage by Prime Minister Keir Starmer in late 2024.^[7]^[8] He was created Baron Barber of Ainsdale, of Southport in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, on 20 January 2025,^[9] and was introduced to the House of Lords on 23 January.^[10]

Personal life

He met Mary Gray in the TUC International Dept, and they married. They have two daughters. He supports Everton F.C. and lives in Muswell Hill.^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 "Biographical details: Brendan Barber". Trades Union Congress. Archived from the original on 25 July 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
↑ Stevenson, Alexander (2013). The Public Sector: Managing The Unmanageable. Kogan Page. ISBN 978-0-7494-6777-7.
↑ "Brendan Barber to retire as TUC General Secretary". Trades Union Congress. 18 April 2012. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
↑ Claire Bolderson (7 September 2012). "Profile: Frances O'Grady, the new TUC general secretary". BBC. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
↑ "No. 60534". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 2013. p. 1.
↑ "Birthday Honours: Adele joins Blackadder stars on list". BBC News. 14 June 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
↑ "Political Peerages December 2024". GOV.UK (Press release). Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street. 20 December 2024. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
↑ Pollock, Laura (20 December 2024). "See the 38 new lifetime peers announced by the UK Government". The National. Retrieved 20 December 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
↑ "No. 64639". The London Gazette. 24 January 2025. p. 1182.
↑ "Introduction: Lord Barber of Ainsdale". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 842. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Lords. 23 January 2025. col. 1803.