Trade Unions
In 1980, he was elected a union convenor; his father George had also been a union convenor at the plant for the National Union of Vehicle Builders. He was appointed as a full-time district official of the TGWU in 1989, later becoming National Officer of the Vehicle Building and Automotive Group, and was elected as TGWU Deputy General Secretary in 2002.
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