Gordon Sandison (trade unionist)

Gordon Ramsay Sandison (17 April 1913 – 3 July 1958) was a British trade union leader.

Sandison won a scholarship to study at St John's College, Cambridge, before becoming a barrister.

At the 1945 UK general election, he stood unsuccessfully for the Labour Party in Southend-on-Sea.

[1] Sandison was elected as acting general secretary of Equity in December 1946, and was appointed to the post on a permanent basis the following year.

[1][2] Initially, many union activists were suspicious that Sandison wanted to use the post for his own political ambitions, but he countered this by establishing democratically elected committees to oversee each aspect of the union's activity.