Rodney Kevan Bickerstaffe was born on 6 April 1945 in Hammersmith.
He was the General Secretary of National Union of Public Employees from 1982 to 1993 and of UNISON from 1996 to 2001. He died from cancer of the oesophagus, aged 72 years, on 3 October 2017, at the Marie Curie Hospice in Camden.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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Rodney Bickerstaffe
Planted on 13th October 1989 to celebrate a hundred years of caring in the pu...
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Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the UK April 2002 - February 2005.
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