Speirs joined the STUC as an assistant secretary in 1979, the year that Margaret Thatcher swept to power and initiated a series of reforms that transformed the trade union movement, not least in Scotland.
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Bill Speirs, Trade Unionist
Bill Speirs, who has died after a long illness aged 57, was a trade unionist of the old school who successfully led the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) from a long period of protest under successive Conservative governments to engaging with a devolved Scotland for which he had long campaigned.
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