The former WA Secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) is believed to have suffered a heart attack.
Jock Ferguson was elected state secretary of the union in 2000.
"It has been a great honour to serve in various positions with the AMWU, which is one of the most progressive unions in Australia," Jock Ferguson said in his inaugural speech in parliament last year.
Jock Ferguson was elected to the legislative council in 2008. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland and begun working in the union movement there at the young age of 17 as a fitter's apprentice delegate to the Boilermaker's Union. He served in the British Merchant Navy before coming to Western Australia to work as a fitter in the Pilbara and Gascoyne Region.
Mr Ferguson quickly became a shop steward within the AMWU and steadily rose through its ranks to become Western Australian State Secretary in 2000, a position he held until his election to Parliament in 2008.
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