Joe Marino

Joe Marino (born 1946, Wythenshawe, Manchester)[1][2] is a British trade unionist.

Marino joined the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union (BFAWU) in his youth, and was elected as a shop steward in 1968. He was active in attempts to build a shop stewards' movement, and in 1971 was elected to the union's National Executive Council, soon also becoming involved in national negotiations over pay and conditions.[3] He had worked previously as a baker at the Old Trafford factory of Knightsbridge Cakes.

BFAWU members undertook a national strike in 1978; this ended in defeat, but Marino's profile increased to the extent that he was elected as the union's general secretary the following year. At this time, he was a member of Militant, a Trotskyist group in the Labour Party.[4]

Marino left the Labour Party in the 1990s, and joined the Socialist Labour Party, for which he stood unsuccessfully in London at the European Parliament election, 1999, championing a Eurosceptic position.[3][5]

Marino remained general secretary of BFAWU until his retirement in 2010. From 1998, he also served on the executive of the General Federation of Trade Unions,[3] and as its chair from 2009 until 2011.