Tony Hearn

rdf:langString Tony Hearn

rdf:langString post abolished

rdf:langString new post

rdf:langString Tom Rhys

rdf:langString General Secretary of the Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union

rdf:langString General Secretary of the Broadcasting and Entertainment Trades Alliance

rdf:langString General Secretary of the Association of Broadcasting Staff

rdf:langString David Anthony Hearn (born 4 March 1929), known as Tony Hearn, is a former British trade union leader. Hearn attended Trinity College, Oxford. He began working for the Association of Broadcasting Staff (ABS) in 1955, as assistant to the General Secretary, Leslie Littlewood. He moved up through the ranks, becoming one of the Assistant General Secretaries, Deputy General Secretary and eventually General Secretary in 1972. He also became Secretary of the loose . In 1984, Hearn took the ABS into a merger with the National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employees, which formed the Broadcasting and Entertainment Trades Alliance (BETA). He became joint General Secretary of BETA with John Wilson, then sole head of the union in 1987. In 1991, he BETA it into a further merger, this time with the Association of Cinematograph Television and Allied Technicians, which produced the Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU). Hearn became its first General Secretary, a position he held until 1993.