Joan Bohanna was known across Merseyside for her campaigning energy and shrewd tactics
HilaryWainwright
Fri 18 Dec 2020 12.48 EST
Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 18.26 EST
As the Usdaw convenor of shop stewards at Glaxo Operations in Speke, Liverpool, Joan Bohanna, who has died aged 76, was one of the few female shop-floor trade union leaders in the 1970s. Joan was known across Merseyside for her shrewd tactics and campaigning energy – against the closures of Speke’s Dunlop tyre plant and Standard Triumph car factory, for example.
She immersed herself in support for the miners’ strike of 1984-85. She played a leading role, too, on the steering committee of the News on Sunday, launched in 1987