Sarah Woolley

Sarah Woolley is the General Secretary of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union, she became a member of the union when she started work as a weekend assistant at Bakers Oven, which later became Greggs and though not initially active within the union, she became a shop steward shortly after Greggs took over and became more active not only in the BFAWU but the wider union movement.

She was elected as a full time office in 2016, sitting on the unions national executive as the Women’s representative before that and was elected as the first Female General Secretary the union has at the end of 2019 and took up the role in 2020.