Sarah Woolley

{{Short description|British trade union leader}}

{{for|the Canadian neuroscientist|Sarah M. N. Woolley}}

Sarah Woolley (born 1987) is a British trade union leader, the first ever woman to lead the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union (BFAWU).

Woolley joined BFAWU while working part-time at a Bakers Oven shop. She became full-time, and later a shop manager, while Bakers Oven became part of Greggs. Following the merger, Woolley met the branch secretary and became active, firstly as a shop steward, and was later elected onto its national executive committee, then became a full time official. She is also the 2023-2025 President of the GFTU General Federation of Trade Unions.{{cite news |title=Expansion or decline - the future of the Bakers' Union |url=https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/expansion-or-decline-future-bakers-union |accessdate=29 June 2020 |work=Morning Star |date=2 October 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Chacko |first1=Ben |title=From Bakers Oven worker to trade union leader |url=https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/bakers-oven-worker-trade-union-leader |accessdate=29 June 2020 |work=Morning Star |date=3 March 2020}}{{cite web |title=Trade union learning "reignited" my passion for learning says BFAWU's Sarah Woolley |url=https://www.unionlearn.org.uk/case-studies/trade-union-learning-reignited-my-passion-learning-says-bfawus-sarah-woolley |website=UnionLearn}}

Woolley was elected as leader of the union in 2019, and took up the post on 1 May 2020.{{cite news |title=Sarah Woolley elected BFAWU general secretary |url=https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sarah-woolley-elected-bfawu-general-secretary |accessdate=29 June 2020 |work=Morning Star |date=26 October 2019}}

In the 2020 Labour Party leadership election, Woolley supported Rebecca Long-Bailey.{{cite news |title=The Red Baker |url=https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/03/the-rebel-baker |accessdate=29 June 2020 |work=Tribune}}