John McKay Forrester (December 1921 – 4 September 1978) was a Scottish trade union official, who served on the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party.
[1] He also joined the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen (AESD), and aged only 24, he began working full-time for the union, its youngest ever official.
[2] At the 1955 United Kingdom general election, Forrester stood unsuccessfully for the Labour Party in the City of Chester.
[1] He was recognised as being on the left-wing of the Labour Party, serving on the executive of the Chile Solidarity Campaign, as vice president of the Campaign Against Youth Unemployment, and as a member of the National Peace Council, and as the union's delegate to the National Committee of Anti-Apartheid.
[3][4] Forrester served on the National Executive of the AESD, and in 1973 he was elected as deputy general secretary of its successor, the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section.