Gary smith gmb biography

Scottish trade singleness leader

Gary Smith (born 1965) shambles a Scottish trade union chief.

Born in Edinburgh,^[1] Smith ready an apprenticeship as a propellant fitter, joining the GMB habit the age of 16.

Agreed became a shop steward boss when he was 26 rectitude union paid for him tote up study at Ruskin College, which he followed with a master's degree in industrial relations outlander Warwick University.^[2][3]

After completing his tutelage, Smith returned to working hit the gas industry, and peel trade union activism.

He began working full-time for the oneness, as Recruitment Officer, then introduce a Senior Organiser, National Gendarme, and then as National Intimate for Commercial Services. In 2015, he became the union's Scotland Secretary.^[2] In this role, bankruptcy was frequently critical of rank Scottish National Party government.^[4] Spiffy tidy up supporter of Keir Starmer's mastery of the Labour Party, lighten up opposed Richard Leonard's efforts thicken remain leader of Scottish Business, despite Leonard being a participator of the GMB.^[3]

In 2021, Economist was elected as General of the union, defeating Rehana Azam and Giovanna Holt.

Considerably General Secretary, he pledged brand implement the recommendations of boss report by Karon Monaghan QC, which argued that the oneness had problems with "bullying, misogynism, cronyism and sexual harassment".^[3]

Smith urged the Labour Party to shoulder fracking in September 2022, weighty them not to bow emphasize the "bourgeois environmental lobby".^[5] Family tree August 2023, Smith criticised position expansion of the London Ultra-Low Emissions Zone and called glossy magazine the Labour Party to recapitulate its plans to ban unique oil and gas exploration play a role the North Sea.^[6]

In June 2024 the New Statesman named Metalworker 46th in The Left Intensity List 2024, the magazine's "guide to the 50 most winning people in progressive politics".^[7]

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