Manuel Cortes

Not to be confused with Manuel Cortez.

Cortes speaking at the 2016 Labour Party Conference

Manuel Cortes (born 2 May 1967) is a British trade unionist who served as the General Secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) between 2011 and 2022.[1]

Early life

Manuel Cortes (right) with Mick Whelan (left) and Paul Nowak at the Protest for an Affordable Railway under Public Ownership at London Waterloo in 2015

Cortes was born and raised in Gibraltar; while growing up, he never spoke English with his family.[2] He left school with no qualifications.[3]

He became an apprentice electrician, joined a local union, and gained technical qualifications from the Gibraltar and Dockyard Technical College. It allowed him to pursue further studies at a technical college in Kent. He studied Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, later becoming a full-time student representative. Later he would gain master's degrees in Optical Electronics and Business Economics from the University of Strathclyde.

Career

Cortes' first job after university was for the Banking, Insurance and Finance Union (BIFU) that merged with the Barclays Group Staff Union and NatWest Staff Association in 1999 to become the UNIFI, then became part of Amicus in 2004. He worked for a year as a fundraiser for Amnesty International.[3]

Transport Salaried Staffs' Association

In March 1998, Cortes joined the TSSA, the UK's second-largest rail union, which was formerly known as the Railway Clerks' Association, a white-collar union. On 15 November 2011, he was elected General Secretary for a five-year term. In December 2016, he was re-elected with 66% of the vote on a turnout of 19%.[4]

In 2015, Cortes endorsed Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party leadership election.[5]

In 2022, Cortes was accused of sexual harassment by a former TSSA employee, something which he vehemently denied and which had not been upheld after an internal investigation.[6]

In February 2023, the report of an investigation by a Labour Party member of the House of Lords that was requested by the Trade Unions Congress (TUC) was published.[7] The report was critical of Cortes and other senior TSSA officials and supported the harassment allegations made by several former TSSA staff. Cortes and several other senior TSSA staff were dismissed following publication of the report commissioned by the TUC.[8]

In June 2023, delegates at the TSSA annual conference rejected appeals from former General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, and former Interim Organising Director, Luke Chester, after they were both dismissed for gross misconduct. Delegates heard from Cortes and Chester by video link during a closed session of the gathering in Cork, Ireland. During his appeal, Cortes removed his shirt and argued he had been "made a scapegoat". The decision means that conference has upheld the dismissals of Cortes and Chester.[9]

References

  1. ^ Elgot, Jessica. "Leftwingers launch pro-EU campaign to shift Labour position on Brexit". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  2. ^ A Marxist case against Brexit: Trade union leader Manuel Cortes on what Labour should do, New Statesman, 22 February 2018
  3. ^ a b "Manuel Cortes: our new General Secretary". TSSA. 12 December 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Gibraltarian wins second term at head of UK transport union". Gibraltar Chronicle. 2 December 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  5. ^ Wilkinson, Michael (23 August 2016). "Bernie Sanders 'backs Jeremy Corbyn' in Labour leadership race". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  6. ^ Syal, Rajeev (10 May 2022). "Union enforces NDA to stop woman repeating sexual harassment allegation". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  7. ^ https://assets-eu-01.kc-usercontent.com/81b3452f-5056-01c8-b2c8-1c901bd27e20/e9997caa-16f9-4a19-b2a5-ae36e72c021b/Kennedy%20Report%20Final%20February%202023.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  8. ^ "Trade Union Leader Dismissed Following Report Into Sexual Harassment". Novara Media. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  9. ^ Smythe, Polly (8 June 2023). "Trade Union Leader Loses Appeal Against Sexual Abuse Scandal Dismissal". Novara Media. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
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Preceded by General Secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association
2011–2022 		Succeeded by
Frank Ward (acting)

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