RMT leader says government legislation aimed at stopping unions campaigning against poverty
In another interview, with PA Media, Mick Lynch, the RMT general secretary, said the government did not know how to run a railway service. He explained:
The railway service is in desperate straits.
The companies that run it and the government that oversees it have shown that they are incompetent and incapable of understanding the railway and running the railway on a daily basis.
What this is a symbol of is that the government are losing the argument. They’ve lost the argument on austerity and pay, and the state of our national public services.
And instead they want to close that argument down by closing down the unions and stopping us from campaigning against poverty.
