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Gavin Laird

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Three years after taking up a full-time position with the union, he was elected to the AEU executive and later elected AEU general secretary, remaining in that position after the merger which created the AEEU. He addressed the
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annual conference in 1986 – an unusual move for a trade unionist at the time. Laird held a number of other posts and directorships. He was a member of the Arts Council between 1983 and 1986.
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He retired from the AEEU in 1995 and died in October 2017 at the age of 84 after a long illness.
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General secretaries of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union
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General secretaries of the Amalgamated Engineering Union
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he attended a local high school then began working for
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Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions
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Gavin Laird (trade unionist)
CBE
trade unionist
Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union
Bank of England
Clydebank
Singer
Amalgamated Engineering Union
shop steward
convenor
Confederation of British Industry
Heriot-Watt University
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Margaret Thatcher
Tony Blair






"An era ends with the going of Sir Gavin"
Herald Scotland
"Sir Gavin Laird Obituary"
"Honorary Graduates"
the original
Sir Gavin Laird C.B.E. 1933-2017
John McFarlane Boyd
Amalgamated Engineering Union
Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union

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