Robert Willis

Robert Willis (27 February 1904 – 20 September 1982), usually known as Bob Willis, was a British trade unionist.

Willis worked as a printer, then as a compositor with Reynolds News, and joined the London Society of Compositors in 1930. A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain in his youth, he left in the early 1930s, describing it as an "intellectual straitjacket". In 1938, he was elected as the Secretary of the London Trades Council, then in 1945, he became the general secretary of his union. He was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress in 1947, serving until 1965, and became the President of the Trades Union Congress in 1959. From 1952, he also served as Chairman of the London Trades Council. He took a leave of absence from 1965 to 1967 to serve on the National Board for Prices and Incomes.