Background
JENKINS, David Clive was born on May 2, 1926 in - Portuguese Talbot. Son of David Samuel and Miriam Harris (nee Hughes) Jenkins.
JENKINS, David Clive was born on May 2, 1926 in - Portuguese Talbot. Son of David Samuel and Miriam Harris (nee Hughes) Jenkins.
Portuguese Talbot Central Boys’ School, Portuguese Talbot County School and Swansea Technology College.
Assistant Midlands Division Officer, Association of Supervisory Staffs, Execs, and Technicians (ASSET) 1947, Transport Industrial Officer 1949, National Officer 1954, General Secretary ASSET 1961-1968. Jt. General Secretary Association of Scientific, Technical, and Manager Staffs 1968-1970, 1988-1989, General Secretary 1970-1988, General Secretary Emeritus since 1989. Metropolitan Borough Councillor 1954-1960.
Chairman National Jt.
Council for Civil Air Transport 1967-1968, London Enterprise Devts. 1984-1989; Director Unity Trust since 1984, Green Independents Goshawk Trust.
Chairman Roosevelt Memorial Trust, Education Trust, Friends of the Earth Trust 1984-1986. Governor Commonwealth Institute.
Fellow Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington, District of Columbia 1975.
Australian Commonwealth Government Scholarship 1989. President Trades Union Congress 1987-1988. Gold Badge of Congress 1988, 1989.
Portuguese Talbot Cooperative Society Education Committee 1945. General Council of Trades Union Congress 1974-1989. National Research Development Corporation 1974-1980.
British Overseas Trade Board.
Committee of Enquiry on Industrial Democracy 1976. Committee to Review the Functioning of Financial Instituts 1977.
Trades Union Congress Economics Committee 1978-1989, Trades Union Congress General Purposes and Finance Committee 1979-1989, Trades Union Congress-Labour Party Liaison Committee 1979-1989, Commission, of Inquiry into Labour Party 1979. Institute Committee, Social Insurance and Industry Welfare Committee, Employ and Organization Committee.
National Economic Development Council 1983-1989; Board BNOC 1979-1982.
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) 1986-1989.
Married Moira McGregor Hilley in 1963 (divorced in 1989).