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Jack Jones was once voted 'the most powerful man in Britain' by the general public in the 1970s in the UK. Born by Liverpool docks Jack started work on the docks in the days of casualised dock work where workers queued every morning for the chance of a days work. His sense of injustice led him into union work. As a young man he fought against Fascism in the Spanish Civil War and returned to the UK wounded.



He went on to become the most powerful trade union leader in British history, bringing into being many improvements and entitlements that still exist today. Passionate and political, when he retired he refused a seat in the House of Lords and became instead the leader of the British Pensioners Movement.



The film project is being promoted by the award winning journalist Brian Reade who writes for the UK newspaper the Daily Mirror (see link below). Brian is working closely with Jack's family and the project is to be funded through the Liverpool based Film Trust called the Jack Jones Trust (see link)



The trust is supported by many UK affiliated unions, the Jones Family and its patrons include many current trade union General Secretaries including Len McCluskey, of Unite the successor union of Transport and General Workers Union



The Trust will be approaching unions for funding to complete the Project. The production company Hurricane Films based in Liverpool will undertaking the Project with Brian Reade. The company had won many awards and was the production company behind the award winning Terence Davies film 'Time and the City'



UNI's senior organiser of Property Services and the Jack Jones Trust Director Nigel Flanagan said "Jack Jones was a giant of a man, an inspiring trade union leader at the head of one of the most powerful trade union movements on history. It is important to tell his story, but on our terms, those of solidarity and anti fascism, of compassion and peace. It is also important that his story is made by Liverpool people and workers. The city itself is an important part of international working class history and Jack is part of its legacy."



http://www.jackjonestrust.com/



http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brian-reade-jack-jones-greatest-1747600