Richard Rosser, Lord Rosser, who has died aged 79, a long-serving former general secretary of the rail union TSSA (Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association). He helped maintain the stability of the industry during the turbulent period of railway privatisation in the last years of John Major’s Conservative government.
He spent his lifetime working with the railway industry and after retiring from the union in 2004 joined the House of Lords, later becoming Labour’s frontbench spokesman on transport.
