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MENTAL health nurse Gordon McKay was picked as president of Unison yesterday.
Mr McKay, from Kilbirnie, Ayreshire, joined Unison predecessor Nupe on the first day he started working for the NHS in 1987.
An active shop steward and branch chair, he was elected to Unison’s national executive committee in 2009. The NEC elects the union president.
At the union’s national conference in Brighton, Mr McKay said that he hopes to continue the progress being made securing a pay rise for NHS staff in fighting for similar results for all public-sector staff.
He also hopes to “get the message across” that “it is public services that hold our society together, and to demonstrate to people how it is that they do that.”
Joining him as vice-president and junior vice-president will be Josie Bird, an administrative officer from Newcastle, and Sian Stockham, a care worker from Abergavenny.
