Ruaidhri Roberts

Ruaidhri Roberts (1 January 1917 – February 1986) was an Irish trade union leader.

Born in Dublin, Roberts attended Belvedere College and University College Dublin before joining the accounts department of Bord na Móna. In 1945, he was appointed as general secretary of the Irish Trade Union Congress (ITUC), which had just suffered a major split with the Congress of Irish Unions leaving. Roberts kept the ITUC going and led negotiations with Congress which resulted in the two merging in 1959 to form the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU).[1]

Roberts soon became joint general secretary of the ICTU, then in 1966 took sole responsibility until his retirement in 1981. In retirement, he served on the board of the Irish Sugar Company and as president of the People's College.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Mr Ruaidhri Roberts dies", Irish Times, 8 February 1986
Trade union offices
Preceded by
Thomas Johnson		 General Secretary of the Irish Trades Union Congress
1945–1959 		Succeeded by
Position abolished
Preceded by
James Larkin, Jnr		 General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions
1959–1981
With: Leo Crawford (1959–1966)		 Succeeded by
Donal Nevin
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