Jack Owen (trade unionist)

He should not be confused with Jack Owen (1887–1957) who was also a British trade unionist.

Jack Owen (c.1890 – 22 October 1983) was a British trade unionist.

Born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Owen worked as a blastfurnaceman in a foundry for twenty-five years. He joined the National Union of Blastfurnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades (NUB), and began working full-time for the union in 1937.Trades Union Congress, Report of the 1983 Annual Trades Union Congress, p.356

In 1948, Owen was elected as general secretary of the NUB, and also to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. He retired in 1953, and wrote Ironmen, a history of the union.Jack Eaton and Colin Gill, Jack Eaton, Colin Gill, p.137

Owen died at the age of 93 in 1983.

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