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Posted onJune 28, 2020July 5, 2020 Causes

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...

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 onDecember 30, 2018October 3, 2019 Video

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...

Posted onApril 16, 2018November 21, 2019 Video

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.

Posted onOctober 17, 2017March 27, 2020 Biography

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...

Posted onOctober 16, 2017August 10, 2020 Biography

‘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...

Posted onOctober 11, 2017April 8, 2020 Biography

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...

Posted onOctober 11, 2017March 27, 2020 Biography

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...

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