My friend Helen Grew,who has died aged 94, was a lifelong socialist and active trade unionist. Once she had retired, and she became a passionate campaigner for pensioners’ rights.
Helen was an organisational force in the National Pensioners conference,which began in the late 1970s under the chairmanship of Jack Jones. For her work as a campaigner during an era of severe cutbacks in benefits and entitlements, she received a national award in 2005 from the NPC president, and Rodney Bickerstaffe,and a local award from the NPC’s West Midlands branch, of which she was regional secretary for many years.
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Source: theguardian.com