Sarah Woolley

For the Canadian neuroscientist, see 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.[1][2][3]

Woolley was elected as leader of the union in 2019, and took up the post on 1 May 2020.[4]

In the 2020 Labour Party leadership election, Woolley supported Rebecca Long-Bailey.[5]

  1. ^ "Expansion or decline - the future of the Bakers' Union". Morning Star. 2 October 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  2. ^ Chacko, Ben (3 March 2020). "From Bakers Oven worker to trade union leader". Morning Star. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Trade union learning "reignited" my passion for learning says BFAWU's Sarah Woolley". UnionLearn.
  4. ^ "Sarah Woolley elected BFAWU general secretary". Morning Star. 26 October 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  5. ^ "The Red Baker". Tribune. Retrieved 29 June 2020.