Sidney Greene, Baron Greene of Harrow Weald

Sidney Francis Greene, Baron Greene of Harrow Weald, CBE (12 February 1910 – 26 July 2004) was a trade union leader in the United Kingdom, serving as general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen from 1957 to 1975. He promoted close ties between the union and the Labour Party, which have not persisted with its successor National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers.

Early in his career, after leaving school at age 14, Greene was a porter at Paddington station.

Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1966 New Year's Honours, he was Knighted in 1970. On 21 January 1975 he was created a life peer as Baron Greene of Harrow Weald, of Harrow in Greater London.

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Preceded byJim Campbell	Assistant General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen 1954–1957	Succeeded byGeorge Brassington
Preceded byJim Campbell	General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen 1957–1975	Succeeded bySidney Weighell
Preceded byJim Campbell, Albert Hallworth and Bill Webber	Railways representative on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress 1957–1975 With: Albert Hallworth (1957–1960) Bill Webber (1957–1963) William Evans (1960–1963) John Bothwell (1963–1968) Albert Griffiths (1963–1969) Percy Coldrick (1968–1972) Ray Buckton (1972–1975)	Succeeded byRay Buckton and Sidney Weighell
Preceded byJohn E. Newton	President of the Trades Union Congress 1970	Succeeded byJack Cooper
Preceded byJack Cooper and Harry Nicholas	Trades Union Congress representative to the AFL-CIO 1969 With: George Smith	Succeeded byCyril Plant and Hugh Scanlon

v t e National Union of Railwaymen
General Secretaries	1913: James Edwin Williams 1916: J. H. Thomas 1931: Charlie Cramp 1933: John Marchbank 1943: John Benstead 1948: Jim Figgins 1953: Jim Campbell 1957: Sidney Greene 1975: Sidney Weighell 1983: Jimmy Knapp
Senior Assistant General Secretaries	1913: Samuel Chorlton, Walter Hudson, Thomas Lowth and J. H. Thomas 1916: Chorlton, Hudson and Lowth 1920: Charlie Cramp 1931: John Marchbank 1933: G. W. Brown 1940: John Benstead 1943: Jim Figgins 1948: Jim Campbell 1954: Sidney Greene 1957: George Brassington 1969: Sidney Weighell 1974: Russell Tuck 1983: Charles Turnock 1987: Alan Dodds
Predecessors	Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants General Railway Workers' Union United Pointsmen and Signalmen's Society
Other topics	RMT Triple Alliance

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