Mary Bousted
The Baroness Bousted | |
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Official portrait, 2025 | |
| General Secretary of the National Education Union | |
| In office 1 September 2017 – 31 August 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Kebede |
| President of the Trades Union Congress | |
| In office 14 September 2016 – 13 September 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Liz Snape |
| Succeeded by | Sally Hunt |
| General Secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers | |
| In office 7 April 2003 – 1 September 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Peter Smith |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 27 January 2025 Life peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mary Winefride Bleasdale 15 September 1959 Bolton, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse |
Donald Bousted (m. 1983) |
| Children | 1 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | A Socio-Political Analysis of the Personal Growth Ideology of English Teaching (1999) |
| Academic work | |
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Mary Winefride Bousted, Baroness Bousted (née Bleasdale; born 15 September 1959), is a British trade unionist, educator and life peer. She was the joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) from 2017 to 2023 and previously the general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) from 2003 to 2017.
Born to teachers in Bolton, Bousted worked as an English teacher in London. After moving into higher education, she ran teacher-training programmes at various universities. She became the general secretary of the ATL in 2003 and, after its amalgamation with the National Union of Teachers to form the NEU, subsequently served as the joint general secretary of the NEU alongside Kevin Courtney. She served as the president of the Trades Union Congress for 2016–17. Bousted was appointed to the House of Lords as a Labour Party life peer in 2025.