Charles Douglas Grieve (27 April 1927 – December 1996) was a

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. Born in

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, Grieve worked at the Mitchell factory in Glasgow. He joined the 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. In 1973, Grieve was elected to the

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(TUC),

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, "Obituary: Doug Grieve", ''Annual Report of the 1996 Trades Union Congress'' on which he was part of a left-wing group, including

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and Jim Slater. In 1981, he won election as chair of the Trades Councils Joint Consultative Committee, while, in 1983, he was expected to win election as

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, but the General Council was reorganised that year, and he lost his seat. With the decline in tobacco-related employment in the UK, Grieve negotiated the merger of the TWU into the

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; once this was completed, in 1986, he retired. In his spare time, Grieve organised a trade union brass band festival in

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, and he devoted much of his retirement to the event. He died in London in 1996.''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007''

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