Ms Carol Beaumont, of Auckland, ONZM, for services to the union movement and women’s rights.
Ms Carol Beaumont, of Auckland, ONZM, for services to the union movement and women’s rights.
Carol Beaumont has worked across the union movement as a campaigner, organiser and educator, holding numerous executive positions. She has been a member of the Pay and Employment Equity Taskforce, Ministerial Advisory Committee on Employment Relations Education, Skills New Zealand Tripartite Governance Forum, and Workplace Health and Safety Council, and an advisor on the Equal Employment Opportunities Board of Trustees. She was General Secretary of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions. She was a Member of Parliament from 2008 to 2011 and 2013 to 2014, notably campaigning against loan sharks. She is a board member of the National Council of Women and was President of its Auckland branch. Ms Beaumont leads the work of the International Trade Union Confederation’s Global Organising Academy in the Asia Pacific region.