Bill Speirs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British politician
Date of Birth: 08-Mar-1952
Place of Birth: Dumbarton, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 23-Sep-2009
Profession: trade unionist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Bill Speirs
- William MacLeod Speirs (8 March 1952 – 23 September 2009) was a Scottish trade union leader, a socialist and internationalist.
- He was General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress. Speirs was a key figure in left-wing Scottish politics, chairing the Scottish council of the Labour party at the 1987 general election, and being a prominent member of various groups of the Bennite left, e.g.
- the Labour Co-ordinating Committee and Scottish Labour Action. Speirs was also a high-profile advocate of Scottish devolution, e.g.
- he was instrumental in the creation of Scotland United, was a member of the Scottish Constitutional Convention, and was a member of the group that drafted the key document Scotland's Parliament, Scotland's Right in 1995
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