About Audrey Prime
Lived 1915 – 2001 (aged 85–86). Audrey Prime was a trade unionist.
Audrey Mary Prime (1915 – 2 May 2001) was a British trade unionist.
Career Prime grew up in Sutton-in-Ashfield and attended the local grammar school. She began working in local government as a shorthand typist at the town hall in Kirkby-in-Ashfield in 1936, immediately after leaving school, and joined the National Association of Local Government Officers (NALGO). She was soon elected to a local union committee, then in 1944 began working full-time for the union in London. She was appointed as assistant national organiser of the union's local government section in 1957, then in 1962 as its national organiser for health staffs. From then until 1972, she also chaired the staff side of the Whitley Council for Professional and Technical staff, and for Administrative and Clerical Staffs. In addition, she was a member of the Consultative Committee on Women Workers of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
Prime was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1975 New Year Honours.
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Who was Audrey Prime?
British trade unionist
When was Audrey Prime born?
Audrey Prime was born in 1915.
When did Audrey Prime die?
Audrey Prime died on 2 May 2001.
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Audrey Prime was a trade unionist.
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