Union leader Mick Lynch defends UK rail strikes over Christmas

Government ‘coordinating attack on working people’ and seeking to ‘ratchet up dispute’, says RMT

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The RMT general secretary has defended rail strikes across the UK over Christmas and said unions have a “duty to coordinate what they do”, saying the government is sending a message that pay rises will only come with worse terms for workers.

Mick Lynch said the government was “coordinating … an attack on working people” by changing working conditions and offering below-inflation pay rises.

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