Eric Albert Barrett Hammond, OBE (17 July 1929 – 30 May 2009) was general secretary of the EETPU, a British trade union, from 1984 to 1992.
Hammond was born in Northfleet, Kent, and was evacuated to Newfoundland, Canada during World War II, returning to the UK in 1945.
Hammond, like his predecessors Leslie Cannon and Frank Chapple, ostensibly started his career on the Left, but, unlike them, was never an actual member of the Communist Party.
In 1982 he was elected to succeed Chapple as general secretary of the EETPU, a post he occupied fully from 1984.
Eric Hammond and Arthur Scargill famously fell out at the 1984 TUC conference when he described the UK miners' strike (1984–85) as "lions led by donkeys".