Mick Lynch Is Tired of Workers Getting Screwed
The British rail union leader Mick Lynch has recently gone viral for his media appearances defending his union's strike. In an interview, Lynch discusses that strike, the media firestorm he's helped spark, and how workers can defeat Britain's superrich.
RMT leader Mick Lynch addresses workers at a solidarity event. (Photography by Harry Mitchell)
In the weeks since forty thousand National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) members voted for strike action — the largest rail strike since at least the 1980s — a lot has changed in the national conversation.
The cost of living crisis has pushed millions of workers to the brink of poverty. After a decade of pay squeeze, inflation is running at over 11 percent, and even the basics are increasingly unaffordable for many people across Britain.
This was the backdrop to this summer’s rail strike, which pits the RMT — and now also ASLEF and the TSSA — against both profiteering rail companies and the Tory government.
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