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Joan Bohanna was known across Merseyside for her campaigning energy and shrewd tactics
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Fri 18 Dec 2020 12.48 EST
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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 ....

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