Rory Murphy

Rory Murphy (born 23 April 1955) is a former British trade union leader.

Murphy attended the Bishop Bright Grammar School in Royal Leamington Spa before becoming a photographer for the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1972. He joined the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS), and from 1979 worked full-time for the union. In 1984, he became ASTMS's National Secretary for Ireland, then in 1987 was appointed as one of the union's assistant general secretaries. The union became part of Manufacturing, Science and Finance the following year, and Murphy took the same job with the new union, but in 1989 left to become the Chief Executive of Finers.

In 1990, Murphy returned to trade unionism as Director of Industrial Relations for the Royal College of Midwives, then in 1995 he was appointed as General Secretary of the NatWest Staff Association (NWSA).

Murphy took the NWSA into a merger, in 1999, which formed UNIFI, of which he served as joint general secretary. In 2004, UNIFI merged into Amicus, and Murphy was appointed as one of its assistant general secretaries. He subsequently worked for a variety of private sector organisations.