Naomi Pohl is a

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trade union leader. Pohl attended Cranbrook School and then

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. In 2006, she became Assistant General Secretary of the

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. She moved to the Musicians' Union in 2009, rising to become National Organiser for Recording and Broadcasting, then Assistant General Secretary for the Music Industry. In 2019, she was elected as the union's Deputy General Secretary, and in the same year was also elected to the executive board of the

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. In 2020, she was listed on ''

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s Women In Music Roll Of Honour. In 2022, Pohl was elected as general secretary of the union, the first woman to hold the post. On election, she described her top priorities as including improving pay, obtaining better royalties for streamed music and tackling sexual harassment within the music industry.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pohl, Naomi Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London General secretaries of the Musicians' Union (United Kingdom) Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress People from Cranbrook, Kent