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Rick Sumner campaigned and raised money for miners who were sacked in the national strike GraemeAtkinson Thu 13 May 2021 13.16 EDT Last modified on Thu 13 May 2021 13.18 EDT My good friend Rick Sumner, who has died aged 88, was a trade unionist and a stalwart supporter of the miners during and after the bitter national strike of the 1980s. Rick was for several years a miner at Shuttle Eye Colliery in West Yorkshire but also worked as a trawlerman in the North Atlantic, as a scaffolder and steel erector in the north-west and, later, as a community and grass roots advice worker in Moss Side, Manchester. Throughout it all, he was a dedicated trade unionist, a member of the Constructional Engineering Union, the NUM, and the Manufacturing, Science and Finance union. He believed strongly in workers’ democracy.

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