John Park MSP
Welcome to my pages on the Scottish Parliament website. I was elected as a regional list member for Mid Scotland and Fife on 3rd May 2007.
If you have any issues or concerns which you think I may be able to help with please do not hesitate to get in contact – details of how to do so are further down the page.
I’ve been an active trade unionist and a member of Unite since I started working in 1989 and a Labour Party member for the majority of my working life. Coming from a family with roots deep in the coalfields of Fife, and in the defence industry, I was brought up to recognise that having the opportunity to be an elected representative is a privilege and an important responsibility.
I left school at 15 and undertook an electrical fitter apprenticeship at Rosyth Dockyard. I became active in the trade union led campaign to win the Trident refit contract. I was elected a shop steward shortly after and subsequently was elected as secretary of the joint trade union negotiating committee in 1999.
In 2001 I took up a full time position with the Amalgamated Engineering Electrical Union (AEEU) in Research and Communications at their Head Office in London. When the Union merged with MSF to form Amicus I was appointed a National Campaigns Officer working on wide range of diverse industrial campaigns across the UK before returning to Scotland in 2003 to work in the private sector as Head of Employee Relations with Babcock Naval Services.
Prior to my election to the Scottish Parliament I was an Assistant Secretary at the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) where I had responsibility for the organisation’s media and political strategy.
I am the Labour Party's spokesperson on skills and have a keen interest in workforce development issues. I am also interested in European matters and in particular the social partnership models in the Nordic countries.
My main areas of interest include business/industrial issues; skills; energy; industrial relations; housing; and sport.
This introduction was written by John Park MSP and is current as of
February 2008
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Member for:
Mid Scotland and Fife
Party:
Scottish Labour
Date of Birth:
14 September 1973
Place of Birth:
Dunfermline, Scotland
Family Information:
Married
Trade Union/Professional Membership:
Unite: Amicus Section
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Education:
Blacklaw Primary School (1978-1985)
Woodmill High School (1985-1989)
Fife College (1989-1992)
Career History:
2004 - 2007
Assistant Secretary
Scottish Trades Union Congress
2003 - 2004
Head of Employee Relations
Babcock Naval Services
2002 - 2003
National Industrial Campaigns Officer
Amicus
2001-2002
Research Officer
Amicus (AEEU)
1998 - 2001
Trade union Convenor
Rosyth Dockyard
1989 - 1998
Electrical Fitter
Rosyth Dockyard
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