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GLASGOW EAST (24th July 2008) |
Solidarity
Tricia McLeish
Tricia McLeish is 44, and works as a technical officer for Glasgow City Council's Land and Environmental Services and was a Unison (and previously NALGO) shop steward in the council's housing department for 15 years.
She was born, bred and still lives in Shettleston, the eldest of six children, all of whom still live in the East end of Glasgow, as do her parents. She was educated at St Andrews in Greenfield.
She joined the Labour Party Young Socialists and then Militant in the early 1980's and since then has been at the forefront of many political campaigns in Scotland. After being suspended from the Labour Party for her involvement in the Anti-Poll Tax Federation, she went to be a founder member of The Scottish Socialist Alliance, the Scottish Socialist Party and then Solidarity. She is a member of the party's National Steering Committee and still an active trade unionist.
The main theme of her campaign were:
Labour have betrayed the working class of Glasgow.
Tax the rich more, not less.
Bring the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
