Our father, Kenneth Glynn, who has died aged 94, was a life-long socialist and peace campaigner. He was also an exceptional trade unionist who used argument, logic and evidence to win better conditions for his members.
Kenneth achieved these successes from 1960 as general secretary of the Society of Post Office Executives (SPOE). He won case after case through negotiation and arbitration with the Post Office and later with British Telecommunications. Between 1960 and 1980 the number of telephones used in the UK trebled. Many of those overseeing the planning of this expansion were members of SPOE. Despite having had no previous tradition as organised labour, they subsequently enjoyed above-inflation pay increases and better conditions without resorting to the industrial action so characteristic of those two decades.
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