Doug Nicholls (trade unionist)

Douglas Nicholls (born 1955 or 1956) is a British trade union leader.

Nicholls was a part-time youth worker in Oxford in 1975, when he joined the Community and Youth Workers' Union (CYWU). In 1982, he moved to Coventry to work full-time in the field, and in 1987 he was elected as general secretary of the CYWU.

In 2007, Nicholls took the CYWU into a merger with the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU); a few months later, the TGWU became part of Unite the Union, and Nicholls served as a national secretary of Unite until 2011.

Nicholls served as Chair of the General Federation of Trade Unions from 2007 until 2009, and was elected as the federation's General Secretary in 2012.

In 2015, Nicholls became the first chair of Trade Unionists Against the European Union.