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Everyone at the ITF was deeply saddened to hear of Richard Flint’s death at the tragically young age of 47 on 18 April.
Richard worked as my principal assistant for most of the 8 years that I was Secretary of the ITF’s Research & Publications Department. That department was, when I was appointed Acting General Secretary of the ITF in 1993, rapidly transformed into the ITF Communications Department and I had no hesitation in recommending to the Executive Board that he be appointed to head it. Richard was always deeply committed to workers’ rights and to communications, and his career in the ITF Secretariat enabled him to make a major impact on both. The ITF Seafarers’ Bulletin, for example, the first international trade union publication to be aimed at rank and file workers in a truly global industry, recently celebrated its 20th Anniversary. The reason for that was quite simple. In 1986 - our first year together - using our recently acquired Macintosh Plus personal computers (prior to that ITF computers filled several rooms) Richard and I put together the first ever issue of the Seafarers’ Bulletin in a single night with me writing stories and Richard editing and designing the pages. In fact the ITF cleaners were somewhat shocked to find us still there, surrounded by huge piles of paper, at 7 in the morning when they arrived to start work.
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Richard was always full of enthusiasm for what he was doing and readily infected others with the same feeling. He was also an enthusiastic smoker and would not have appreciated the new UK legislation which will shortly make smoking in the workplace illegal. When we learnt that he was suffering from a very serious genetic disease which was set to develop progressively, everyone working with him was deeply saddened, but even then – up to the moment when he really couldn’t face a full working day – he kept on polishing and perfecting ITF publications, campaign materials and, of course, his beloved ITF website.
Messages of sympathy and solidarity are already pouring in from all over the ITF’s global family. Richard may finally have succumbed to his disease, but his sense of humour, dynamism and very strong personality will live on his colleagues memory for many years to come.
-David Cockroft, General Secretary, ITF
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