Jeremy Dear was the General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists in Great Britain and Ireland, from 2001 to 2011.
He has a reputation as one of the Awkward Squad of left-wing trade unionists. He is married to Paula Dear (née Jolly) who is a journalist with the BBC. Jeremy Dear is a supporter of the marxist newspaper Socialist Appeal.
Famous quotes containing the word dear:
“Every man’s task is his life-preserver. The conviction that his work is dear to God and cannot be spared, defends him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)