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Jose Netto – a pioneer for workers’ rights and trade unionism in Gibraltar
Jose Netto
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UNITE, the union for workers in Gibraltar, has reacted with sadness at news of Jose Netto’s passing on September 25 aged 92.
Jose was a pioneer for workers’ rights and trade unionism in Gibraltar. He worked as an apprentice mechanical fitter with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Joining the Gibraltar Confederation of Labour (GCL) he became the youngest GCL shop steward and a member of the GCL executive.
He left the GCL in 1957 after he took a stance against conscription. He worked in London before returning to Gibraltar, working at the Royal Naval dockyard.
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