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Sir Gavin Laird, CBE, is a trade unionist, who became General-Secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU) and a Member of the Court of the Bank of England. Growing up in Clydebank he attended a local high school then began working for Singer. He became a Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) shop steward there, then convenor.〔 Three years after taking up a full time position with the union, he was elected to the AEU executive and later appointed AEU general secretary, remaining in that position after the merger which created the AEEU.〔 He addressed the Confederation of British Industry annual conference in 1986 - an unusual move for a trade unionist at the time.〔 He appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme ''Desert Island Discs'' on 25 October 1992, was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) under Margaret Thatcher's government and knighted in 1995 at the behest of Tony Blair.〔 He retired from the AEEU in 1995.〔 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gavin Laird」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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