After fourteen years as a workplace union activist, Carl joined the TUC Organising Academy in 2000 as a trainee union organiser.
In 2004, he became Director of the TUC Organising Academy responsible for leading and developing the Academy’s training programme for union organisers and officers. He then took up a post as a Regional Organiser with the NASUWT, one of the UK’s teaching unions.
He returned to the TUC in 2008 and in 2009 took up his present position as National Organiser, leading the TUC’s work on organising and recruitment.
This work includes responsibility for the development and content of the TUC Organising Academy, providing support to unions on union organising strategies and running the TUC’s Leading Change Programme for senior union officers. Most recently, Carl has been working on the TUC’s Reaching Out to Britain’s Young Core Workers project which is developing new ways of organising young workers.
Carl studied History at Liverpool John Moores University and is a graduate of the Harvard Law School Trade Union Programme. He lives in Liverpool and is a devoted father and passionate supporter of Everton Football Club.