About Gavin Laird
Lived 1933 – 2017 (aged 84). Gavin Laird was a trade unionist.
Sir Gavin Harry Laird (14 March 1933 – 26 October 2017) was a Scottish trade unionist, who became General Secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU) and a Member of the Court of the Bank of England.
Growing up in Clydebank he attended a local high school then began working for Singer. He became an Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) shop steward there, then convenor.
He received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1994, was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) under Margaret Thatcher's government and knighted in 1995 at the behest of Tony Blair.
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Who was Gavin Laird?
trade union leader (1933-2017)
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Gavin Laird was born on 14 March 1933.
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Gavin Laird died on 26 October 2017.
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Gavin Laird was a trade unionist.
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