Another presenter has tried to own RMT boss a Mick Lynch and like every other attempt it failed as Lynch argues his, and his union’s case.
Tn the interviewer who questioned the RMT leader about rail operators being bailed out, before Lynch perfectly explained what was actually happening.
The interviewer said: “Railways have been bailed out to £16 million pounds to keep them afloat. The rail network doesn’t work properly.”
Mick Lynch
But, Lynch explained: “They didn’t need to be bailed out … They needed to be subsided because these private sector operators are ripping the country off by taking a profit.
“While they were taking that subsidy, and our members worked all the way through that [pandemic] by the way, they’ve paid themselves £400 million pounds of profit from that subsidy.”
Success
Mick Lynch rail workers union has insisted strikes have been a “success” – despite no pay deal being agreed yet after almost a year of industrial action.
Mr Lynch, speaking from a picket line at London’s Euston station last week said: “We’ve pushed them [rail bosses] back on all the stuff they wanted to do – they wanted to make thousands of our people redundant, they wanted to shut every booking office in Britain, restructure our engineering workers, [and] cut the catering service.
“What we haven’t got is a pay deal, we haven’t got any guarantees on our members’ futures, but we have stopped them doing the worst aspects of their proposals and their ideas.”
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