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Posted onApril 17, 2020April 17, 2020 Biography Video

Video tribute from Nelson Mandela on Bick’s retirement

Message from Nelson Mandela to Rodney Bickerstaffe on his retirement in 2000. Courtesy of Warwick University Modern Records Centre @MRCWarwick https://twitter.com/MRCWarwick/status/1250803896198606848

Posted onApril 15, 2020 Biography

Dalit Solidarity Network UK tribute

You would get a phone call, ‘It’s Rodney’, said in that slightly self-mocking tone which suggested he wasn’t entirely happy with whoever had decided that...

Posted onApril 8, 2020April 11, 2020 Biography

Funeral Eulogy

Rodney Bickerstaffe 6 April 1945 – 3 October 2017: a Tribute Rodney was a lovely man.  We mourn his death after a long illness, endured...

Posted onApril 8, 2020April 8, 2020 Biography Causes

Keeping the memory and spirit of the International Brigades alive

Rodney Bickerstaffe was a great champion of the International Brigades. The men and women who volunteered to fight fascism in Spain from 1936-39 were an...

Posted onApril 8, 2020April 8, 2020 Biography

Rodney Bickerstaffe: Leader, Activist, Encourager – by Dan O’Neill

(From Left Lives in Twentieth Century Ireland: Volume 2 published in Dublin in 2019 by Umiskin Press) courtesy of Dan O’Neill. Rodney Bickerstaff led the...

Posted onDecember 19, 2019December 19, 2019 Biography

Beyond UNISON

Rodney shocked many colleagues and friends when announcing his intention to retire from the General Secretaryship at the end of 2000. However, it wasn’t so...

Posted onDecember 19, 2019March 23, 2020 Biography

Towards a New Union

The perception by the leadership that a union for all public sector workers was desirable was shared by much of the rank and file. Motions...

Posted onDecember 19, 2019January 8, 2020 Biography

General Secretary in Action

Rodney said he believed in a form of hierarchy but only to ensure things got done. He gave his officers at both national and regional...

Posted onDecember 19, 2019January 8, 2020 Biography

Appointing a New General Secretary

An interesting footnote to this section suggests itself from the 1968 Report by the Executive Council to National Conference. The announcement is recorded that Sydney...

Posted onDecember 19, 2019January 8, 2020 Biography

Trainee to Head Office

Following his mum’s letter to Sydney Hill and an exchange of letters with the General Secretary, in which Rodney said “I would be happy to...

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