page_title: Jack Jones (trade unionist)
section_title: Retirement
hierarchical_section_title: Jack Jones (trade unionist) / Retirement
caption_attribution_description: English: Jack Jones House (formerly Transport House) Commutation Row, Liverpool, L3.. 1970s building for the TGWU, refurbished and renamed 2009 for Unite the Union.
context_page_description: James Larkin Jones CH MBE, known as Jack Jones, was a British trade union leader and General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union.
context_section_description: In retirement from the T&G, Jones served as the President of the National Pensioners Convention, an umbrella organisation representing over 1,000 local, regional and national pensioners' groups, of which he was Honorary Life President. He was also President of the International Brigade Memorial Trust. Jones' last public act was to unveil a memorial at Newhaven Fort on 7 December 2008, 70 years after British Battalion members returned to the port after the International Brigades were withdrawn from Spain.
  Jones was nominated for the position of Chancellor of the University of London, but lost the election to Princess Anne in 1981. After writing his autobiography, Union Man (published in 1986), Jones became a campaigner on behalf of pensioners.
  At the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth in October 2003, aged 90, he received a special award in recognition of his service to the trade union movement.
  The TGWU building Transport House in Liverpool was refurbished by Unite (the trade union formed from the merger of the TGWU and Amicus) and renamed Jack Jones House in 2009.
  His name also lives on in a block of sheltered flats for the elderly built by Southwark Council on Reedham Street in Peckham.
caption: Jack Jones House, Liverpool
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