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A new resource to keep Rodney Bickerstaffe’s legacy alive for current and future generations
JOHN STEVENSON introduces a new website in tribute to the late Unison general secretary, affectionately known as ‘Bick,’ that will remind people who he was and the importance of the words he spoke
Late Unison general secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe is congratulated by Arthur Scargill after a speech winning the TUC to support for a minimum wage
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Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
LEGENDARY Scottish miners’ leader Michael McGahey famously and often reminded us that “we are a movement, not a monument.”
It was a quote that the late Rodney Bickerstaffe, ex-Unison general secretary and president of the National Pensioners Convention, kept returning to in his wonderfully crafted speech at the unveiling of a memorial to McGahey in Bonnyrigg at the 2006 Midlothian TUC Workers’ Memorial Day.
In light of that, what would Bick (as so many knew him) make of the new memorial website launched this week by friends and comrades to celebrate his life and learn from his legacy?
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