Tributes

Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Fund

Rodney Bickerstaffe - Patron of the campaign to raise a statue to Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette, internationalist, socialist, anti-racist It began ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Funeral Eulogy

Rodney Bickerstaffe 6 April 1945 – 3 October 2017: a Tribute Rodney was a lovely man. We mourn his death ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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‘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 ...
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