Transport workers have lost a good friend and champion, says RMT on death of Gwyneth Dunwoody

Publication Date: April 18 2008

GWYNETH DUNWOODY was a good friend of transport workers and a great champion of publicly owned transport, RMT says today following the death of the Crewe and Nantwich MP and long-standing chair of the House of Commons Transport Select Committee.

"Transport workers have lost a good and true friend in Gwyneth Dunwoody," said general secretary Bob Crow

"Gwyneth was a straight-talking, no-nonsense and fearless individual whose  powerful and principled leadership of the Transport Select Committee helped to expose the utter failure of transport privatisation.

"Gwyneth was her own woman who would always look you in the eye, and regardless of differences she had an unswerving loyalty to the Labour movement," Bob Crow said.