Steve Kemp (trade unionist)

Steve Kemp (born 1961) is a British trade unionist.

Kemp grew up in South Hiendley in West Yorkshire, and worked briefly as a butcher before becoming a coal miner at South Kirkby Colliery. He became active in the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), and participated in the miners' strike of 1984 to 1985.^[1]

In 1988, the South Kirkby mine closed, and Kemp moved to work at the Stillingfleet Mine, near Selby. A supporter of Arthur Scargill, he became treasurer, and then secretary of his union branch.^[2]^[1] He stood for the Labour Party National Executive Committee (NEC) in 1996 and for several years afterwards, but was never elected.^[3] He also attempted to become the Labour candidate in the Hemsworth by-election, 1996, but was barred from standing by a panel of NEC members.^[4]

Kemp was elected as Secretary of the NUM in 2002,^[5] proposing to strengthen the union's links with the Labour Party.^[6] He stood down in 2007,^[7] and joined the political department of the GMB Union.^[8]

References

1 2 Simon Garfield, "Why would a miner strike in 1995?", The Independent, 29 June 1995
↑ "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", parliament.uk, 15 January 1992
↑ "The Labour Party Elections 1996"
↑ Andy McSmith, Faces of Labour: The Inside Story, p.130
↑ Peter Lazenby, "The fallen giant", Yorkshire Evening Post, 21 November 2002
↑ "An era over as Scargill bows out", The Scotsman, 30 July 2002
↑ "Mining union chief to stand down", BBC News, 12 July 2007
↑ "About GMB and Politics", GMB

Trade union offices
Preceded by Position vacant	General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers 2002–2007	Succeeded by Chris Kitchen

Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) and National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)

Presidents	1889 Pickard 1904 Enoch Edwards 1912 Smillie 1922 Smith 1929 Richards 1931 Ebby Edwards 1932 Lee 1934 J. Jones 1939 Lawther 1954 Ernest Jones 1960 Machen 1960 Ford 1971 Gormley 1982 Scargill 2002 Lavery 2012 Wilson

Vice-Presidents	1889 Woods 1909 Smillie 1912 Harvey 1914 House 1917 Smith 1922 Walsh 1924 Richards 1929 Ebby Edwards 1931 Lee 1932 J. Jones 1933 Davies 1934 Lawther 1939 Bowman 1950 Ernest Jones 1954 Edward Jones 1960 Collindridge 1963 Bullough 1969 Schofield 1973 McGahey 1987 Thompson 1989 Vacant 1992 Cave 2002 Stanley 2010 Wilson 2012 Thomas

General Secretaries	1889 Ashton 1919 Hodges 1924 Cook 1932 Ebby Edwards 1946 Horner 1959 Paynter 1968 Daly 1984 Heathfield 1992 Scargill 1992 Vacant? 2002 Kemp 2007 Kitchen

Treasurers	1889 Enoch Edwards 1904 Abraham 1918 Robson 1921 Richardson

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Strikes	1893 1912 1926 1969 1972 1974 1984–1985

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