Pat rafferty unite biography

Pat Rafferty, STUC President and Scottish Secretary for Unite the union Scotland addressed the #STUCYouth21 conference.

Pat was born in Glasgow in and has lived in Grangemouth for the past 41 years.

Pat Rafferty leads Unite the Union in Scotland.

RM G8JRH5–Pat Rafferty, Unite's Scottish Secretary, at the first-ever Unite Scotland policy conference at the Golden Jubilee Hotel, Clydebank, Glasgow.

Scotlands Jobs Top The Agenda at Unite Conference · Unite Accuse Glasgow Council Company of Strike.

Pat Rafferty leads Unite the Union in Scotland.!

From Red Clydeside to today: Unite&#;s Pat Rafferty on the challenges facing the UK&#;s biggest union in modern Scotland

23/04/

CommonWeal

Ben Wray speaks to the top dog of Unite&#;s Scottish section about how the union is adapting to new political and economic challenges to regain the power of the unions in Scotland

ONE HUNDRED YEARS ago this month, Mary Barbour led the Glasgow Rent Strike.

That movement defeated local landlords and ultimately won a change in the law to cap rent prices. After mass demonstrations, including violent clashes with the police, one of the key weapons the Glasgow Women&#;s Housing Association had was to march to the Clyde and get the support of the factory workers, who threatened to go out on strike if the evictions were not halted.

Not long after, on 17 November, the landlords caved in, and ended legal action against the rent strikers.

Just four years later, trade unions led one of the most powerful strike movements in UK history, where tanks had