Bryan Capewell Stanley (3 May 1926 –19 July 2009) was a British trade union leader.
Born in Walsall (on the first day of the General Strike), and educated at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Stanley started work with the Post Office in 1942, and also joined the Post Office Engineering Union (POEU).
In 1981, he convened the St Ermin's group of anti-militant trade union leaders, which aimed to co-ordinate their votes to win control of the Labour Party.
He was not able to prevent the privatisation of British Telecom, and retired in 1986, but took up a post on the Industrial Tribunals panel.
[2] Just before his retirement, the POEU merged with the Postal and Telecommunications Group of the Civil and Public Services Association to form the National Communications Union, and Stanley served as its first General Secretary.