About Chris Keates
Born 1951. Chris Keates is a trade unionist.
Christine Mary Keates (born 10 October 1951 ) is a British trade unionist.
Early life Keates grew up in Stoke-on-Trent and attended Thistley Hough Girls' School, a girls' grammar school now called Thistley Hough Academy, before studying Archaeology and History at the University of Leicester, then completing a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of Birmingham.
Career From 1974 until 1998, she worked as a teacher in Birmingham. At the time, she was the only woman to lead any of the ten largest unions in the UK.
Keates also serves on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.
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