Paul Howes

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Paul Howes (b. 23 August, 1981) is the National Secretary of The Australian Workers' Union.

He was elected National Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union follwing the election of former AWU National Secretary Bill Shorten to the Australian House of Representatives in November 2007. Howes initially became a union official at the age of 17 when he was employed by the Labor Council of New South Wales (now Unions New South Wales). He joined the Australian Workers Union as an official in New South Wales in 2002 and was later recruited to the National Office of the union. In 2005 he was elected as the union's National Vice President becoming the youngest ever national official in the history of the union.