Rodney Bickerstaffe

Rodney Bickerstaffe (born 6 April 1945) has been president of the UK National Pensioners Convention and was leader of Britain's largest trade union, UNISON until 2001.Bickerstaffe's mother was unmarried at a time when it was considered shameful to be a single mother. He lived for three years with his mother in east London in a home for unmarried mothers. He then moved to Doncaster among his extended family. He was educated at Doncaster Grammar school and in sociology at Rutherford College of Technology.
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