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Roger William Bolton (7 September 1947,
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, Ireland – 18 November 2006, Woking, Surrey) was a British
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. Roger Bolton left Dublin with his family in 1958 when they moved to London. He began his career as a
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and became a prominent member of the BBC trade union, the
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(ABS). In 1979, he began working for the ABS, and remained a union employee though a series of mergers in which it became the
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and finally the
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(BECTU). Bolton rose to prominence during a successful pay dispute with the BBC in 1989, and was elected General Secretary of BECTU in 1993. He married Elaine Lewis in 1974 and they had one child, a daughter. Roger Bolton died from cancer, aged 59, in 2006.


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BECTU News - General Secretary dies at 59
1947 births 2006 deaths Trade unionists from London British trade union leaders Irish emigrants to the United Kingdom Deaths from cancer in England {{UK-trade-unionist-bio-stub