# Doug Grieve

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**Charles Douglas Grieve** (27 April 1927 – December 1996) was a [Scottish](/source/Scottish_people) [trade unionist](/source/Trade_unionist).

Born in [Partick](/source/Partick), Grieve worked at the [Mitchell](/source/Stephen_Mitchell_%26_Son) factory in Glasgow.[1] He joined the [Tobacco Workers' Union](/source/Tobacco_Workers'_Union) (TWU), and was appointed to the joint post of national organiser and financial secretary. In October 1969, he succeeded Charles Butler as the union's general secretary.[2]

In 1973, Grieve was elected to the [General Council of the Trades Union Congress](/source/General_Council_of_the_Trades_Union_Congress) (TUC),[3] on which he was part of a left-wing group, including [Rodney Bickerstaffe](/source/Rodney_Bickerstaffe), [Ken Cameron](/source/Ken_Cameron_(trade_unionist)), [Bill Keys](/source/Bill_Keys_(trade_unionist)), [Alan Sapper](/source/Alan_Sapper) and [Jim Slater](/source/Jim_Slater_(trade_unionist)).[4] In 1981, he won election as chair of the Trades Councils Joint Consultative Committee,[3] while, in 1983, he was expected to win election as [President of the TUC](/source/President_of_the_TUC), but the General Council was reorganised that year, and he lost his seat.[5]

With the decline in tobacco-related employment in the UK, Grieve negotiated the merger of the TWU into the [Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section](/source/Technical,_Administrative_and_Supervisory_Section); once this was completed, in 1986, he retired.[3]

In his spare time, Grieve organised a trade union brass band festival in [County Durham](/source/County_Durham), and he devoted much of his retirement to the event.[3] He died in London in 1996.[6]

## References

1. Peter Taylor, *The smoke ring: tobacco, money & multinational politics*, p.91

1. *Labour Research*, vols.58-59, p.175

1. [Trades Union Congress](/source/Trades_Union_Congress), "Obituary: Doug Grieve", *Annual Report of the 1996 Trades Union Congress*

1. Christopher Andrew, *The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5*

1. *The Economist*, Vol.288, p.59

1. *England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007*

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