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Motion · S6M-00620 · 7 Jul 2021

In Memory of Ron Curran, from Colliery Blacksmith to STUC President

Lodged by Paul Sweeney (Scottish Labour) Standard Motion 12 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament expresses its condolences on the death of Ron Curran, aged 94, who was the Scottish national officer of the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE), which later merged with other unions to become UNISON; notes Ron's instrumental role in building support across the Scottish Labour Party and the trade union movement for NUPE’s campaign for the national minimum wage in 1984; acknowledges that this was later adopted as Labour, STUC and TUC policy across the UK; notes his service on the General Council of the STUC, of which he would become President in 1987; acknowledges Ron's continued accomplishments in retirement from 1989, including his authoring of several books on the economic and social history of Tyneside, where he grew up and began his working life as a blacksmith at the Rising Sun Colliery in Wallsend, and expresses its sympathy with Danielle Rowley, who is the former MP for Midlothian, and the whole Curran family, on the loss of an inspirational trade union leader and much loved father, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend.

Supporters (12)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.