Secretaries of The Victorian Trades Hall Council
- Brian Boyd - 7 March 2005–present
- Leigh Hubbard - 1995-2005.
- John Halfpenny - 1988-1995
- Albert Monk - 1934-1939
- Jack Holloway - 1916-1929
- William Emmett Murphy - 1877-1886 (oversaw the transformation of the Committee into the Melbourne Trades Hall Council)
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