Campbell Christie, who has died aged 74, was one of the leading trade unionists of his generation, a shrewd strategist who maintained the influence of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) – of which he was general secretary from 1986-1998 – long after Scotland’s industrial base had disappeared. He had parallel influence as a civic leader, not least in the campaign to establish a Scottish Parliament, becoming, as one account put it, the “choirmaster of Scottish discontent”.
Campbell Christie
Trade unionist;
Born: August 23, 1937; Died: October 28, 2011.
Campbell Christie, who has died aged 74, was one of the leading trade unionists of his generation, a shrewd strategist who maintained the influence of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) – of which he was general secretary from 1986-1998 – long after Scotland’s industrial base had disappeared. He had parallel influence as a civic leader, not least in the campaign to establish a Scottish Parliament, becoming, as one account put it, the “choirmaster of Scottish discontent”.
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