Jeremy Dear

{{Short description|British trade unionist}}

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Jeremy Dear (born 6 December 1966)"[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U10000393/DEAR_Jeremy Dear, Jeremy]", Who's Who is a British trade unionist.

Dear graduated from Coventry Polytechnic before completing a diploma in journalism at University College Cardiff. From 1989, he worked for the Essex Chronicle and the Big Issue, joining the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). He led an eleven-month strike at the Chronicle against de-recognition of the NUJ. Between 1994 and 1997, he was the editor of the Big Issue in the Midlands, then in 1997 became the National Organiser of the NUJ.

In 2001, Dear was elected as the General Secretary of the NUJ, its youngest ever leader, and only the second to serve two terms.{{cite news|author=Ponsford, Dominic |title=Jeremy Dear to stand down as NUJ leader |url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/46647 |work=Press Gazette |date=4 February 2011 |accessdate=2015-06-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304131643/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/46647 |archivedate= 4 March 2016 }} He also spent time as a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.

As leader, Dear became known as a member of the "Awkward Squad" of left-wing trade unionists.Francis Beckett, "[https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/oct/29/highereducation.furthereducation Back and blooming]", The Guardian, 29 October 2002 He is married to Paula Dear, who is a journalist with the BBC. Jeremy Dear is a supporter of the Marxist newspaper Socialist Appeal. {{citation needed|date=October 2010}}