Bridget Henderson

Bridget worked for 30 years for Unite the Union and its predecessor, the Transport and General Workers’ Union. She edited the T&G’s paper for rural and agricultural workers, the Landworker, for 12 years, as well as the group’s press and campaigns. She worked as a university research fellow on age, race and gender discrimination in employment at London Metropolitan University, and as a researcher and writer on pay bargaining issues at Industrial Relations Services.  Bridget returned to the union as a researcher, working on pay and conditions for its membership in the food, drink and agriculture sector; on equal pay in local government; and as the union’s lead researcher on labour market enforcement.