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James Reid (9 July 1932 – 10 August 2010) was a Scottish trade union activist, orator, politician and journalist born in Govan, Glasgow. His role as spokesman and one of the leaders in the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in between June 1971 and October 1972 attracted international recognition.
Jimmy Reid, the Clydeside trade union activist who died this week, was an inspiring orator. This speech, delivered on his inauguration as rector of Glasgow University in 1972, was compared...
Apr 28, 2022 · Fifty years ago today, 28 April 1972, Jimmy Reid gave his powerful and influential address to the University of Glasgow in the Bute Hall, having been elected as its rector, the position to represent the interests of the students to the university and more widely.
Jimmy Reid gripped the nation's imagination when he became the public face of working class opposition to Conservative Party policies in the early 1970s.
Feb 23, 2020 · By Maggie Ritchie. JIMMY Reid was haunted by memories of desperate poverty all his life. His early childhood in the Glasgow Gorbals slums, where three of his sisters died in infancy, drove...
Jan 10, 2018 · Jimmy Reid died from a brain hemorrhage in 2010 aged 78, his funeral on the Isle of Bute ending in a celebration of his life at Old Govan Parish Church, the cortege passing past the shipyards...
Aug 11, 2010 · Jimmy Reid, the former Glasgow union leader who achieved international recognition when he successfully led a work-in to save shipbuilding on the Clyde, has died at the age of 78, it was...
