Doug McAvoy (2 January 1939 – 12 May 2019)[1][2][3] was a British trade union leader.
He was General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers from 1989 to 2004.
A teacher, McAvoy was secretary of Newcastle-upon-Tyne NUT and became a member of the National Executive of the Union in 1970.
He was appointed Deputy General-Secretary designate in 1974, a post he held until 1989, when he became the first directly elected General Secretary.
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