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Robert Willis (trade unionist)
Robert Willis (1904 – 20 September 1982), sometimes known as Bob Willis, was a British trade unionist.
Willis worked as a printer, then as a compositor with ''Reynolds News'', and joined the London Society of Compositors in 1930.〔''The Labour Gazette'' (1958), p.1387〕〔''Newspaper World'', Nos.2452-2477, p.ii〕 A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain in his youth, he left in the early 1930s, describing it as an "intellectual straitjacket".〔''Transport Salaried Staff Journal'', vols.54-55, p.420〕 In 1938, he was elected as the Secretary of the London Trades Council, then in 1945, he became the general secretary of his union. He was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress in 1947, serving until 1965, and became the President of the Trades Union Congress in 1959.〔''Report of the Annual Trades Union Congress'' (1982), p.338〕 From 1952, he also served as Chairman of the London Trades Council.〔
Under Willis' leadership, the London Society of Compositors merged with the Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society to form the "London Typographical Society". He became known as a strong speaker with forceful views.〔 In 1964, Willis led the Compositors into a merger with the Typographical Association to form the National Graphical Association, of which he served as joint general secretary until 1969.〔〔Arthur Ivor Marsh and Victoria Ryan, ''Historical Directory of Trade Unions, Vol. 5'', p.43〕 He took a leave of absence from 1965 to 1967 to serve on the National Board for Prices and Incomes.〔
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