The Chapel Street branch in London was notorious as a hotspot of National Front activity, and Bernie was a prime mover in the campaign to outlaw racist practices in the workplace.
She also worked in the print industry, joining Sogat and becoming mother of the chapel of her branch.
The NUJ "chapel", or workplace branch, at Guardian News & Media (GNM) not only negotiates the pay, terms and conditions of all those working on the editorial floors.
In her behind-the-scenes account of the dispute, The End of the Street, the long-time Sunday Times reporter Linda Melvern vividly describes the agonies of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) "chapel" (or office branch) at The Times over that weekend.
The National Union of Journalists called a meeting of the chapel, as a union branch is known in this trade.
We are a democratic, lay-member led grass roots organisation – it is members in our workplace chapels and our branches who shape union policy and direct priorities.
At the Advertiser he served as the National Union of Journalists' father of chapel (head of the union branch) and on the union's area council and national executive.
His fighting instincts were similarly to the fore as a long-serving father of the NUJ chapel (head of the union branch) at the Evening News, where he won significant improvements to members' pay and conditions.
David Combs of Paw Paw, Mich., found touring the memorial grove of crape myrtle trees and the chapel recently erected where the Branch Davidians' home once stood, said he had had a hard time getting directions.
While one side of St George's chapel, Windsor, was dominated by all known branches of the royal family, only one of the bride's relations attended: her mother.
Everything is expertly installed, by Andrea Crane and Ealan Wingate, turning the sometimes awkward three-floor space of the gallery's uptown branch into a series of intimate chapels.
