Alan Shute obituary
My father, Alan Shute, who has died aged 92, was a tenacious and principled trade union negotiator who rose to become assistant general secretary of the National Union of Civil and Public Servants (NUCPS). He was involve…
My father, Alan Shute, who has died aged 92, was a tenacious and principled trade union negotiator who rose to become assistant general secretary of the National Union of Civil and Public Servants (NUCPS). He was involved in many high-profile negotiations, including representation of some of the sacked GCHQ workers in 1984, when the Thatcher government banned trade union membership for employees.
Originally a customs officer, after several years of voluntary union work Alan was appointed as a full-time negotiator for the Society of Civil Servants trade union in 1969. Around the same time, he was the first member of the society to appear on television – in an episode of The Eamonn Andrews Show discussing purported benefit fraud – and was interviewed by soon after about working conditions in DHSS offices.
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