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{{Short description|British trade unionist}}
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'''Jeremy Dear''' (born 6 December 1966)<ref name="whoswho">"[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U10000393/DEAR_Jeremy Dear, Jeremy]", ''[[Who's Who]]''</ref> is a [[British people|British]] [[trade unionist]].

Dear graduated from [[Coventry Polytechnic]] before completing a diploma in journalism at [[University College Cardiff]].  From 1989, he worked for the ''[[Essex Chronicle]]'' and the ''[[Big Issue]]'', joining the [[National Union of Journalists]] (NUJ).<ref name="whoswho" />  He led an eleven-month strike at the ''Chronicle'' against de-recognition of the NUJ.<ref name="PG2011" />  Between 1994 and 1997, he was the editor of the ''Big Issue'' in the Midlands, then in 1997 became the National Organiser of the NUJ.<ref name="whoswho" />

In 2001, Dear was elected as the General Secretary of the NUJ,<ref name="whoswho" /> its youngest ever leader, and only the second to serve two terms.<ref name=PG2011>{{cite news|author=Ponsford, Dominic |title=Jeremy Dear to stand down as NUJ leader |url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/46647 |work=[[Press Gazette]] |date=4 February 2011 |accessdate=2015-06-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304131643/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/46647 |archivedate= 4 March 2016 }}</ref>  He also spent time as a member of the [[General Council of the Trades Union Congress]].

As leader, Dear became known as a member of the "[[Awkward Squad (trade unions)|Awkward Squad]]" of left-wing trade unionists.<ref>Francis Beckett, "[https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/oct/29/highereducation.furthereducation Back and blooming]", ''[[The Guardian]]'', 29 October 2002</ref>  He is married to Paula Dear,<ref name="whoswho" /> who is a [[journalist]] with the [[BBC]]. Jeremy Dear is a supporter of the Marxist newspaper ''[[Socialist Appeal (UK, 1992)|Socialist Appeal]]''. {{citation needed|date=October 2010}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.nuj.org.uk/inner.php?docid=176 biography] from NUJ
*[http://jeremydear.blogspot.com/ Jeremy Dear's blog]

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{{succession box|title=Chair of the Trades Union Councils' Joint Consultative Committee|years=c.2005&ndash;2011|before=[[Tony Burke (trade unionist)|Tony Burke]]|after=[[Bob Crow]]}}
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