# Peter Hagger

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**Peter Hagger** (17 April 1944 – 26 February 1995) was a [British](/source/British_people) trade unionist.

Born in London, Hagger became a computer engineer, but in 1969 instead became a taxi driver. He joined the [Transport and General Workers' Union](/source/Transport_and_General_Workers'_Union) (TGWU), becoming prominent in its Cab Section. By the end of the 1970s, he was Chair of the Region 1 Cab Trade Committee, and in 1980 he was elected to the union's General Executive Council. In this role, he devised an index which was later adopted by the [Department of Transport](/source/Department_of_Transport) to calculate annual increases in taxi fares.[1][2] During his time at the T&G he also wrote a document called *a National Framework for Taxis*, which was referred to in the parliamentary debate around the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998.[3]

Hagger was a member of the [Communist Party of Great Britain](/source/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain), then of the [Communist Campaign Group](/source/Communist_Campaign_Group), and its successor, the [Communist Party of Britain](/source/Communist_Party_of_Britain).[1]

Hagger won election to the [General Council of the Trades Union Congress](/source/General_Council_of_the_Trades_Union_Congress) (TUC),[4] and in 1989 was elected as chair of the Trades Union Councils Joint Consultative Committee. He was also elected as vice-chair of the TGWU, and was expected to become the union's next chair. However, he became ill, and died in 1995.[1][2] In his obituary, Barry Camfield described Hagger as "the most influential lay trade-union activist in Britain".[1]

## References

1. Camfield, Barry (7 March 1995). ["Obituary: Peter Hagger"](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-peter-hagger-1610215.html). *The Independent*. [Archived](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-peter-hagger-1610215.html) 26 May 2022 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 18 December 2019.

1. "Obituary: Peter Hagger". *Annual Report of the Trades Union Congress*. 1995.

1. ["Private Hire Vehicles (London) Bill"](https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1998-01-23/debates/f81f496c-d5e4-4f13-9a6f-0011f6a9f9b2/PrivateHireVehicles(London)Bill). Vol. 304. 23 January 1998.

1. Dobney, Megan & Weir, Adrian (29 January 2015). ["Mick Connolly obituary"](https://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-748c-mick-connolly-july-22-1941-january-29-2015-1). *Morning Star* London taxi driver, T&G executive council and TUC general council member Peter Hagger, who died too young in 1995, was a close personal and political friend.

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