Executive Council members
Unite Executive Council Elections 2023
The term of office of the current Executive Council comes to an end on 30th April 2023. It is therefore necessary to hold an election to elect the new council to hold office from 1st May 2023 to 30th April 2026. These elections are being run on behalf of Unite by Civica Election Services. You can access the guidelines for the ballot, and statements from those seeking nomination on the Executive Council Elections website.
The Unite Executive Council election for the period 2020-2023 closed on 18 June 2020. Following receipt of the results by the outgoing Executive Council the following people below were declared elected. The new Executive Council took office on 22 June 2020 and holds office until 30 April 2023.
| Aerospace & Shipbuilding | Mick Darlington & Mark Porter (observer) |
| Automotive Industries | John Cooper & Ken Smith |
| Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Process and Textiles | Cliff Bowen |
| Civil Air Transport | Jas Gill, Trudi Lanigan & Nigel Stott |
| Community Youth workers and not for profit | Ruth Hayes |
| Docks, Rail, Ferries & Waterways | Andy Green |
| Education | Ken Drury |
| Energy and Utilities | Nick Jeffery |
| Engineering, Manufacturing and Steel | Gary Buchan & Tony Pearson |
| Finance and Legal | Jacob Goddard & Fiona Tatem |
| Food Drink and Agriculture | Debi Bell and Matt Gould |
| Government, Defence, Prisons & Contractors | Chris Cadman |
| Graphical Paper and Media & Information Technology | Tom Murphy |
| Health | Suzanne Abachor, Lesley Mansell & Steve Thompson |
| Local Authorities | Lisa Colquhoun & Kathy Smith |
| Passenger Transport | Nigel Atkinson, Patricia Davies & Simon Rosenthal |
| Road Transport Commercial, Logistics and Retail Distribution | Mick Casey & Dave Williams |
| Service Industries | Howard Percival |
| Unite Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians | Frank Morris & Tony Seaman |
| National Black and Asian ethnic minority seat |
Susan Matthews |
| National disabled members' seat | Dave Allan (elected following by-election 21 June 2021) |
| National LGBT+ members' seat | Jenny Douglas |
| National Retired members' seat | Phil Wiseman |
| National women’s' seat | Jane Stewart |
| National Young members' seat | James Mason |
| East Midlands | Steve Hibbert & June Shepherd |
| Ireland | Therese Moloney & Noel Gibson |
| London and Eastern | David Agbley, Richard Allday, Zimeon Jones & Monica Sorice |
| North East, Yorkshire and Humberside | Michelle Smith; Andrew Dyer |
| North West | Mary Callaghan & Tony Woodhouse |
| Scotland | Eddie Cassidy & Helen McFarlane |
| South East | Hayley Garner & Max O’Donnell-Savage |
| South West | Jayne Taylor & Chris Young |
| Wales | Wendy Gilligan & Kerry Owens |
| West Midlands | Julian Allam, Maggie Ryan & Nick Wareing |
To contact the Executive Council please either send an email or write care of the general secretary who will forward any post received - Executive Council, c/o General Secretary, Unite the union, Unite House, 128 Theobald's Road, London, WC1X 8TN.
