One of the most influential trade union leaders of his generation is being honoured in Liverpool on Saturday.

The Transport and General Workers Union is renaming its Liverpool offices after Jack Jones, its Liverpool-born former General Secretary.

Mr Jones, 93, will be welcomed back to his home city by current General Secretary Tony Woodley for a ceremony and open afternoon from 1300 BST.

The city's Mayor will attend along with a number of union officials.



"Jack Jones is the greatest living trade unionist and a fearless champion for standing up and fighting back for justice," said Mr. Woodley.

"He took his T&G campaigning and organising skills into the fight for pensioners. We are proud and humbled to honour him in this way by rededicating Transport House as Jack Jones House."

Mr Jones, who left school aged 14, started work as a Liverpool docker.

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