Gloria Mills, Chair of the EPSU Women's and Gender Equality Committee elected President of ETUC Women's Committee

(27 October 2015) Gloria Mills has been elected President of the ETUC Women’s Committee that took place on 22 and 23 of October in Brussels. Gloria is also the acting chair of the EPSU’s Women and Gender Equality and is the UNISON spokesperson on equality.

Gloria Mills was elected President of the TUC in September 2005 and served as President and Vice-President in 2005-2007. Gloria's involvement with trade unions began as a steward in 1978. It was not long before she was appointed UNISON’s director of equal opportunities. Since that time she has been responsible for a range of campaigns on equal pay, childcare, women, employment, race and human rights issues.

Gloria was also the first Black woman elected to the TUC's General council, and is chair of its race committee and a member of the women's committee. She is a CRE Commissioner and sits on the editorial advisory board of Equal Opportunities Review. Gloria was awarded the CBE in 1995 for services to trade unions and then the MBE in 1999.

She has been a member of the ETUC Women’s Committee since 2007 and a member of the Presidium since 2011.

Gloria will be working with a powerful team of women from across Europe, including a ‘Presidium’ composed of the newly elected Vice President Fulya Pinar Ozcan from Hakis (Turkey), Ekaterina Yordanova from CITUB (Bulgaria) and three substitute members Rosanna Ruscito from CISL (Italy), Joa Bergold from LO (Sweden) and newly elected Patricia Biard from CSC/AVC (Belgium).

ETUC Press Release