![]() ![]() ![]() Later moving to Hainault, Bob left school at the age of 16 and joined London Transport in 1977, doing a whole host of jobs, starting off making tea, track tree-felling and then track maintenance. ![]() His father was a lifelong member of the Transport and General Workers Union and his passion soon rubbed off on his son. His father was a docker and a highly influential role model in his life who taught him the values in life and how to see both sides of an argument, encouraging him to read the Morning Star and the Financial Times but to disbelieve the latter. Backgroundīob Crow was born in Epping in 1961. Someone who had an encyclopedic filing cabinet in his head, primed and ready to be used. It didn’t matter how busy he was, if you called him, he would always make every effort to attend whatever you were asking him to do. He certainly wasn’t a bully and troublemaker as the right-wing press portrayed him as and he was probably one of the few General Secretaries that I saw walk everywhere, always accompanied by a flat cap and his trademark duffle bag. Bob had a generous nature and always did everything from the heart. If you met him, he always remembered your face, the next time he saw you and would go out of his way to shake your hand. Yet beyond the iron fist, was a very humble man, well-read and able to speak to an audience without any notes. A man who had the words working class stamped in his DNA. A light went out that day that will always be dearly mourned, an irreplaceable powerhouse that never ceased to send seismic shockwaves through anything he touched. Yet in 2014, it was as if an iron brick fell out of the sky and landed on the trade union movement when we learnt that the RMT General Secretary had died from a suspected heart attack at the age of 52. A man who could run rings around a negotiating table, articulate, charismatic and someone passionate about getting the best deal for his members in any dispute. His punchy, no-nonsense approach was poetry in motion. But if you don’t fight you will always lose.” Bob Crow Bob Crow Introductionīob Crow was one of the most brilliant negotiators and orators, you could ever wish for. ![]()
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