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General Secretary of the RMT Mick Lynch gives speech during a demonstration in Parliament Square, London, against the government's controversial legislation on minimum levels of service during strikes, May 22, 2023
RAIL workers’ union general secretary Mick Lynch told Labour’s leaders yesterday that many voters cannot “spot the difference” between Labour and the Tories.
The RMT leader called on Sir Keir Starmer and his team “to show some clear water between themselves and The Daily Mail and the Telegraph – and themselves and the Conservatives.”
His comments came in an interview for Sky’s Sophie Ridge on Sunday programme, as Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said that she is “not for nationalising something that is going to cost us a load of money that we haven’t got when we’ve got kids starving and in poverty.”
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says