John Boyd (trade unionist)

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Sir John McFarlane Boyd

trade unionist
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Born in Motherwell, Boyd attended the Glencairn Secondary School before taking an engineering apprenticeship. He became active in the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), working full-time as a union organiser from 1946., and joining the union's executive in 1953. He was also prominent in the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, serving as its president in 1964, and was first elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1967. A member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, he also served as the party's chairman in 1967.[1]

Boyd stood for the presidency of the AEU in 1967, but he lost out to the left-winger

British Steel Corporation, and was a governor of the BBC.[1]

Boyd was active in the

Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1974, and was knighted in 1979.[1][4]

References

  1. ^
    Who Was Who
  2. ^ Robert Taylor, "The workers are restless", New Statesman, 29 July 2002
  3. ^ a b Deborah Andrews and Roland Turner, The Annual Obituary: 1989, p.218
  4. CBE
    , being knighted in Jim Callaghan's dissolution honours of 1979
Party political offices
Preceded by Chair of the Labour Party
1966–1967 		Succeeded by
Trade union offices
Preceded by President of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions
1963–1964 		Succeeded by
Ted Hill
Preceded by General Secretary of the Engineering Section of the
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers

1975–1982 		Succeeded by
Gavin Laird
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