User:LoopZilla/Lou Lewis

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Lou Lewis (died 11th January 2010, aged 71) was trade unionist in London.

At the start of his bricklaying apprenticeship, Lewis joined the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers (AUBTW).

He was the the union convener at the Barbican site in central London, where he led several so-called wildcat disputes and a lengthy strike in 1967.

Later, the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers (ASW) joined the AUBTW to form the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Painters and Builders (ASWPB), and in December 1971, the name was change to the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT). Lewis became UCATT Regional Secretary for the London South East Region, and he was a member of the Communist Party’s Executive Committee (during the 70s and onwards).