Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Fund
Rodney Bickerstaffe – Patron of the campaign to raise a statue to Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette, internationalist, socialist, anti-racist It began on a bright sunny July...
Tag: tributes
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
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...
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...
Tribute from Tom Sawyer – video
A personal tribute to Rodney Bickerstaffe “Bick” (1945-2017), General Secretary of NUPE and UNISON presented by Tom Sawyer, long time colleague and friend. Presented to...
UNISON video tribute to Rodney Bickerstaffe
A tribute film produced by UNISON for the memorial event on 12 April 2018 at Central Hall Westminster, London.
Rodney Bickerstaffe: A trade unionist who made you proud to be British – LabourList
By Giampi Alhadeff is chair of the Labour Movement for Europe It was fitting that Jeremy Corbyn began his recent session of prime minister’s questions with...
‘We do our bit and pass it on’ Rodney Bickerstaffe – Integrity
By Nigel Flanagan in The Travelling Renegade The passing of Rodney Bickerstaffe – a former General Secretary of UNISON, a leader in the British Trades...
Durham Miners’ Association – Farewell to Rodney Bickerstaffe
Durham Miners have paid tribute to Rodney Bickerstaffe, a giant of the Labour movement, who has died aged 72. An inspirational trade unionist, Rodney worked...
Travellers Times – Gypsy and Traveller rights campaigner and trade unionist
Here in Travellers Times Professors Andrew Ryder and Thomas Acton pay tribute: Andrew Ryder writes: Rodney Bickerstaff (1945 to 2017) well known to the public...