HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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Remembering Bill Lawrence
LAURIE KAZAN-ALLEN remembers the life and work of a tireless campaigner for workers' rights
Bill Lawrence addressing French, Italian, Swiss, German, Brazilian, Canadian, US and British asbestos victims’ campaigners on May 7, 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland
Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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BILL LAWRENCE, who died on October 30, 2021 after a long illness, had lived a life in parallel realities, some of which were concurrent and some consecutive.
He had been a police officer in north-east England, a trade union rep, a legal researcher, a health and safety activist, a historian, a playwright, a freelance journalist, an international trade analyst, a film and TV extra, an organiser of health and safety conferences, a member of the Construction Safety Campaign and a ban asbestos campaigner. His range of interests included both local and global issues of a social as well as historical nature.
He was always off to attend a meeting or an interview to provide support for anyone who found themselves in need. This included British workers injured by industrial diseases, non-English speaking immigrants in difficulties with British bureaucracy or campaigners needing access to the extensive and unique historical database which was Bill Lawrence.
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