Kay Carberry, Baroness Carberry of Muswell Hill
The Baroness Carberry of Muswell Hill | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2025 | |
| Assistant General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress | |
| In office 2003–2016 | |
| General Secretary | |
| Preceded by | David Lea (1999) |
| Succeeded by | Kate Bell (2022) |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 30 January 2025 Life peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 October 1950 |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Sussex |
| Profession | Trade unionist, teacher |
Catherine Rose Carberry, Baroness Carberry of Muswell Hill, CBE (born 19 October 1950), is a British trade unionist and life peer. She was Assistant General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) from 2003 to 2016.
Carberry was educated at the Royal Naval School Tal-Handaq in Malta, then at the University of Sussex. She worked as a teacher for three years, and became active in the National Union of Teachers (NUT), where she took employment as a researcher. She began working for the TUC in 1978,[1] and in 1988 was appointed as the first head of its Equal Rights Department.[2] In 2003, she was appointed to the vacant post of Assistant General Secretary of the TUC.[3]
Carberry has held a number of other posts. She was a commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and the Equal Opportunities Commission. She also served as commissioner of the Low Pay Commission and as a board member of Transport for London. She is a trustee of the People's History Museum, a director of TU Fund Managers, an alternate member of The Takeover Panel and an honorary fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford.[4]
Carberry was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2007 Birthday Honours, for services to Employment Relations.[1][5] She retired from the TUC in 2016.[6] She was created Baroness Carberry of Muswell Hill, of Muswell Hill in the London Borough of Haringey on 30 January 2025 as part of the 2024 Political Peerages.[7]
References
- ^ a b "CARBERRY, Kay", Who's Who
- ^ "Biographical Details: Kay Carberry Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine", Trades Union Congress
- ^ "Women complete top team at TUC Archived 2016-03-10 at the Wayback Machine", Trades Union Congress, 22 January 2003
- ^ "Kay Carberry CBE Archived 2012-06-10 at the Wayback Machine", Equality and Human Rights Commission
- ^ United Kingdom list: "No. 58358". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 15 June 2007. p. 7.
- ^ Trades Union Congress, "Paul Nowak appointed TUC Deputy General Secretary", 25 February 2016
- ^ "No. 64649". The London Gazette. 5 February 2025. p. 2014.