# Paddy Cardiff

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**Paddy Cardiff** (8 November 1925 – 3 June 2005) was an Irish [trade unionist](/source/Trade_unionist).

Born in [Dublin](/source/Dublin), into a family heavily involved in trade unionism, Cardiff left school at 13 and joined the [British Army](/source/British_Army) near the end of [World War II](/source/World_War_II). He returned to Dublin in 1948, where he soon started work at [Guinness](/source/Guinness), and became active in the [Workers' Union of Ireland](/source/Workers'_Union_of_Ireland) (WUI). He studied at the Catholic Workers College in Milltown. He was one of a group of trade unionists who secured recognition of the union by the company, and he rapidly rose through the union, working for it full-time from 1964. In 1969, he was elected as Deputy General Secretary of the WUI, in which role he led the union's campaign for Ireland to join the [European Economic Community](/source/European_Economic_Community).[1]

Cardiff was elected as General Secretary of the WUI in 1977, and led negotiations which several years after his 1982 retirement brought about a long-anticipated merger with the [Irish Transport and General Workers' Union](/source/Irish_Transport_and_General_Workers'_Union).[1] He served as President of the [Irish Congress of Trade Unions](/source/Irish_Congress_of_Trade_Unions) in 1983, then retired on account of ill health.[1][2]

## References

1. "Trade union activist in Larkinite mode of social justice", *[Irish Times](/source/Irish_Times)*, 11 June 2005

1. Donal Nevin, *Trade Union Century*, p.440

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