Jeannie Drake

Jeannie Drake, Baroness Drake CBE (born 16 January 1948) is a British trade unionist and Labour life peer in the House of Lords.

Political Career

Baroness Drake joined the House of Lords on the 20th June 2010. She has held a number of roles within Parliament including: Draft Financial Services Bill in 2011, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Committee between 2012-13, Special Public Bill Committee in 2012, Finance Bill Sub-Committee in 2014 and the Dele-gated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee in 2014.

Notable Work

After attending university, Drake worked as a research officer at the National Union of Public Employees, before moving to the Civil and Public Services Association in 1976. She was a Deputy General Secretary of the National Communications Union and, following a merger in 1995, she held the same position in the Communication Workers Union until 2008. During her tenure, she was President of the Trades Union Con-gress in 2005. Drake serves as a trustee of the O2 and Alliance & Leicester pension funds and has been a board member of the Pension Protection Fund since 2004, as well as other bodies in the pension sector. She has also served as a member of the Employment Appeal Tribunal. She was a commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission from 2006-9.