As he prepares to lead the TUC congress in Liverpool, general secretary Paul Nowak speaks about how his upbringing in Merseyside shaped the man he is today
As a child, living with his family in Bebington on the Wirral, he used to arrange games and events for the kids in his street.
"He was working at the Cammell Laird shipyard, but it was feast or famine and sometimes the work would just stop. He ended up having to go to places like Nigeria and Abu Dhabi to get work and could be away for a long time." "They just said we don't need you on the contract anymore. I have got no doubt at all that was a direct response to the fact that we had unionised. It was union-busting, pure and simple. They did not like the fact that we had got organised.
After a year in the academy, Frances appointed Paul into a policy and campaigns role in the North West. His quick rise through the organisation continued as he then became regional secretary of the TUC in the North East. While Paul's work in the TUC has taken him all over the country, he has always come back to his Merseyside roots and he is thrilled to be hosting Congress in Liverpool for the first time as general secretary.
Paul says it will be a proud moment when his family take their seats at the Liverpool congress to hear him speak as general secretary. He says his mother and father inspired his passion to work hard and gave him his outlook on life. "That's an incredibly important package of measures," says Paul, adding: "It is a radical programme that Labour have said they will deliver in the first 100 days of a government and if they do it will go a long way towards giving people confidence that a Labour government will shift the balance of power back towards working people."
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