Roger William Bolton (7 September 1947,
Dublin
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, Ireland – 18 November 2006,
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trade unionist
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.
Roger Bolton left Dublin with his family in 1958 when they moved to London. He began his career as a
photographic
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technician
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Boots
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the Chemist before moving to 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
(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.