Albert Williams

Albert Williams (12 February 1927 – 28 November 2007) was a British trade unionist.

Born in Stockport, Williams left school at the age of fourteen and completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer with the Manchester Corporation. During World War II, he served in India and South East Asia, remaining in the forces until 1948. He then returned to Manchester, finding work as a bricklayer, and joined both the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers (AUBTW) and the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).

Williams became known as a militant trade union activist, becoming a branch secretary and a regional delegate in quick succession, and was elected to the AUBTW's executive council in 1958. He was the union's youngest ever executive council member, and this despite the union's right-wing leadership.

In 1984, Williams was elected as the General Secretary of UCATT. While he had always opposed the unionisation of the "lump" - self-employed labourers - he changed his mind, and narrowly persuade the union to adopt this policy in 1990. and Williams' suspension being lifted. However, the merger with the EETPU was also abandoned, and Williams' position in the union greatly weakened. He retired the following year.