Janet Williamson

Janet is a Senior Policy Officer at the TUC and leads the TUC’s work on corporate governance and collective bargaining. She is currently leading the TUC's engagement on proposals on union recognition, access to workplaces and the Adult Social Care Fair Pay Agreement in the Employment Rights Bill making its way through Parliament.  

Janet has written widely on corporate governance, worker directors, executive pay, employee share ownership, shareholder engagement and collective bargaining, producing many TUC reports and submissions and other publications. She is also the founder and Chair of Trade Union Share Owners, an initiative that brings together trade union investors to collaborate on voting and engagement at company AGMs, and a trustee of the TUC Superannuation Society.

Janet has represented the TUC on a wide range of bodies and is a member of the Wates Private Sector Coalition Group; the Corporate Governance Committee of the ICAEW; the Cambridge University Centre for Business Research Advisory Board; and is a director of Aspire and the High Pay Centre.