by Peter Lazenby in Leeds

RAIL workers were told to prepare to fight a “storm of job cuts” and attacks on pay, conditions and pensions at the annual conference of transport union RMT in Leeds today.

RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said the government would seek to recoup the billions spent paying for the Covid-19 pandemic by attacking the very people who helped the UK get through it, including transport workers.

In his keynote speech to conference, he said that workplaces should be prepared for government attacks, coupled with the determination of rail and bus privateers to maintain their profits as taxpayer subsidies are withdrawn.