Douglas Nicholls (born 1956) is a British trade union leader and writer.
In 1982, he moved to Coventry to work full-time in the field, and in 1987 he was elected as general secretary of the CYWU.
In 2007, Nicholls took the CYWU into a merger with the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU);[2] a few months later, the TGWU became part of Unite the Union, and Nicholls served as a national secretary of Unite until 2011.
[3] Nicholls was elected to the Executive of the General Federation of Trade Unions in 1995 and served as its President from 2007 until 2009.
In 2015, Nicholls became the first chair of Trade Unionists Against the European Union.