Doug McAvoy

{{Short description|British trade union leader (1939–2019)}}

{{distinguish|Doug McAvoy (footballer)}}

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Doug McAvoy (2 January 1939 – 12 May 2019){{cite web|title=Doug Mcavoy|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bad90741f|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514015728/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bad90741f|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 May 2019|website=BFI|accessdate=14 May 2019}}{{cite web|last1=Speck|first1=Dave|title=Tributes as former NUT leader Doug McAvoy dies aged 80|url=https://www.tes.com/news/tributes-former-nut-leader-doug-mcavoy-dies-aged-80|website=Tes|date=13 May 2019}}{{cite news|title=Doug McAvoy, leader of the National Union of Teachers whose term was marked by bitter rows with the hard Left – obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/05/14/doug-mcavoy-leader-national-union-teachers-whose-term-marked/|work=The Telegraph|date=14 May 2019}} {{registration required}} was a British trade union leader. He was General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers from 1989 to 2004.

A teacher, McAvoy was secretary of Newcastle-upon-Tyne NUT and became a member of the National Executive of the Union in 1970. He was appointed Deputy General-Secretary designate in 1974, a post he held until 1989, when he became the first directly elected General Secretary.[https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/apr/14/schools.politics1 'Profile Doug McAvoy leaves top union role after 30 years'], The Guardian 14 April 2004