Mick Lynch picks apart the government's strategy in strike negotiations 

Yes and causing a lot of pain to other people in Unions trying to earn a living 😝

A proper person and leader.

Let Mick keep going until he and his members eventually realise that in the long term they are doing themselves out of their jobs and in the short term without wages they will become very poor. These predictions have been aired on several TV programmes in the last few days.

@@reggiesmith3866 keep listening to Daily Mail editors. I’m sure they care about you making a fool of yourself in public.

It is warfare against the human Employee in the name of King Profit. ALL economic textbooks treat humans as if a "secretion" from property-things named "Households", consumed by the property-things known as Firms. Only the Owners of the properties benefit from that, not the humans.

@@maxpowerii7368 Only a fool in the eyes of blinkered idiots who cant grasp how large pay rises merely stoke inflation and make things worse, not better. .

Everyone who worked throughout the pandemic on the front line work hard. It isn't a race to the bottom. I support all the underpaid strikers.

NHS is terrible at the moment tho? Need to sort the service as a whole first before pay rises.

Step 1 before full privatization is to make the NHS (or any state assets) inefficient, degrade its service, create the conditions for privatization, simple really. It's all been done before.

Are you Boris Johnson?! 😂

@@shadowandpancakes By sort out the NHS I hope you don't mean privatise. Governments have been "reforming" & "making changes" for the past 40 years. Time for the government to stop interfering and fund it properly

Hes a joy isnt he. So honest, clear and concise with no bullshit..

It is warfare against the human Employee in the name of King Profit. ALL economic textbooks treat humans as if a "secretion" from property-things named "Households", consumed by the property-things known as Firms. Only the Owners of the properties benefit from that, not the humans.

👍 Having a conscience really makes a difference, doesn't it.

Only for himself you daft muppet.

@@lestrem11 who are you calling a muppet you thicko.

@@johnallright6847 If you have been in the building trade for 50 years then you would have been in a union at sometime. Stop dreaming and get ready for school tomorrow.

Unions are worth every penny John, especially in the railway. Hard jobs to get but very easy to lose and one where you could end up in prison if you were to cock up big time.

@@stephenjon3502 Are you mad? Railway workers are like bloody sheep, always a herd of them standing around doing bugger all.

what total nonsense, he is a communist trying to bring the tories down and its purely political. He and his supporters should be ashamed of themselves.

The people are brainwashed from early education. It is warfare against the human Employee in the name of King Profit. ALL economic textbooks treat humans as if a "secretion" from property-things named "Households", consumed by the property-things known as Firms. Only the Owners and Controllers of those properties benefit from that, not the humans.

@@reasonerenlightened2456 If it wasn't for profit and wealth creation mate, you won't have a job and nor will anyone else

@@Curryking32000 How come? People want income, not jobs.

Murdoch playing games.

Why not you tell us ?

@@bigpants6121 totally. Mr Facist

These strikes have been planned an coordinated for almost a year and its all down to bringing the Tories out of government and replacing them with Labour. This is all about brexit.

Depends who 'they' are

Absolutely mucker 👍👍

100%

It is warfare against the human Employee in the name of King Profit. ALL economic textbooks treat humans as if a "secretion" from property-things named "Households", consumed by the property-things known as Firms. Only the Owners and Controllers of those properties benefit from that, not the humans.

How about go get a better job if you think you're worth more? Otherwise, do your job.

​@@thesaint8400 Where are those magic job-trees you are imagining?

Great question. I'd be interested in any interviews as well.

Precisely what we need isn't it?

As far as I know none of them have been on tv and the government hardly ever go on tv to discuss it either. Only Mick Lynch goes on tv as he has nothing to hide, understands the situation, and is capable of giving an honest & straight answer to questions.

Well said.

I havent seen one. They are most likely sunning themselves in the Carribean.

Which party do you envisage being up to the job? Cos it certainly isn't Liebour

The people are brainwashed from early education. It is warfare against the human Employee in the name of King Profit. ALL economic textbooks treat humans as if a "secretion" from property-things named "Households", consumed by the property-things known as Firms. Only the Owners and Controllers of those properties benefit from that, not the humans.

Brain Transplant needed

Yes. And: “concerned for the welfare others” (e.g. the workers and the travellers). That is another attribute which those Tories lack.

Don't forget Trevelyan... that woman is a disgrace

Only the people who are getting shafted by this Tory govt.

It is warfare against the poor in the name of King Profit. All economic textbooks treat humans as if "secretion" from a thing named "Households", consumed by the property known as Firms. Only the Owners benefit from that, not the humans.

More like a man with his own agenda he could not give a toss about his members. If you think other wise more fool you.

@@alanfox691 And his personal agenda is what exactly?

@@brianbarham2277 I think Alan is still trying to figure it out. Lol🤔

Have you only just discovered that. Stop being A camel with your head in the sand 😴😴😴🎊🎊

@@stephenwebster1368 that's an ostrich

The eu must be laughing at just how bad the uk is been run.

Worse than Nazis, Mao or Stalin?

Lynch has his own agenda that's the truth of it all.

So you don't agree that 57k a year is working for driving a train

@@Koi-addict33 You do know that the drivers are not the ones on strike don't you? That is a different union ASLEF. Stop reading the Daily Mail and get real information before you show how ignorant you are. PS the train ticket prices have risen again by inflation so why not wages?

@@colinsixhitter3303 yes they was doing it the other day most of these are the over paid rail maintenance and station staff that most positions need to be ended as they are not needed

@@Koi-addict33 The drivers are not represented by the RMT. You'd be better directing your anger at the useless self serving politicians raking in 84k a year (not including expenses, 2nd homes, 2nd 'jobs' etc. etc. etc )

@@andyjardine8192 I agree on politicians with you they are all corrupt , that doesn't change the fact it isn't gov that sets railways pay it's separate from gov so maybe they should redirect there anger

he seems great, ye

And inflation will escalate and everyone will end up poorer exactly as happened under the Heath Government in the 1970s.

I doubt Mick will give in, but ultimately he can only do this so long as he has a mandate from the RMT’s members. Unfortunately, the government are pernicious and refusing to negotiate because they hope that the RMT’s members will give up. I just hope they hold out.

It is warfare against the human Employee in the name of King Profit. ALL economic textbooks treat humans as if a "secretion" from property-things named "Households", consumed by the properties known as Firms. Only the Owners of the properties benefit from that, not the humans.

Hear! Hear! . . . - - - . . .100% with the strike action! . . . - - - . . .

So! When the Railway people get their deal, do you think people right at the bottom of the ladder (minimum wage), will get more?

no. greedy boomers must fall. and their pensions must also fall.

and fund the labour party? no chance.

@@Curryking32000 you support the Tory's? The ones that have inflicted a cost of living (greed) crisis upon us???? Also many Unions have dis-affiliated from Labour as they no longer care about the working class??? You sure do have a lot of learning to do!!!!

@@robinfoster7597 Yes I support the Tories. The cost of living crisis is not just Europe wide but a global crisis, i'm surprised you didn't know. Also many unions have not dis-affiliated from Labour as without union money Labour would not exist. You sure do have a lot of learning to do!!!!

@@Curryking32000 if you vote Tory, then you vote to inflict pain and suffering on people less well off than your self!!! Shame on you!!! FYI we have the most expensive electricity on the planet!!! Your anti worker stance is disgusting!!!

Yes it's obscene that the Rail companies are kept in profit - all through Covid, when no passengers were travelling. By gifting them £30 m of public (YOUR) tax contributions. I live near the East Coast Line, and wondered how trains were keeping going. From 05:45 AM passing with no saloon lights on; until 10:45 PM into Hull. Now I know, thanks to Mick Lynch; and no thanks to this Tory regime of modern day Nazism. And during the present strike days at least £320 gifted to keep the rail companies in profit while no trains run. Bit bent it seems to me...

Tell more I don’t know about this

@@annenunney9907 This is taking place outside a branch of Marks & Spencer.

The government are still not realising that the people of this country are in full support of those striking for fair wages and working conditions, a conservative government should never have been voted back in in 2019. Total joke.

Solid mate, well done.

Papers like the Telegraph love to talk about how the evil unions are disrupting people's travel and whatever... they don't want people to understand, like you do, that Mark Harper is the one disrupting their travel, and we're all working as we can around the strikes and giving Mark and his colleagues the finger as we do it.

i hope mick lynch is opposed to uk taxpayer's money being used to send weaponry to zelensky,to prolong the conflict in ukraine, when that money should be spent on the british people first!!! we owe ukraine nothing!!!

@@normankennith7919 what control has Mick Lynch got over taxpayers money? That war is kept ongoing as it suits the governments of Europe to do so, It's irrelevant to what he's trying to organise on the streets/picket lines.

all the way

It's not only the Tories,it's politicians over the last 40 years! Remember Tory Blair.

True, but those are mainly the pre-information-age generations. There is a very important change happening with the new generations, who do not grow up blindly believing the establishment's narrative, who have the truth available at the click of a button, and that makes all the difference. New generations, for example, will be much less likely to fall for right-wing anti-EU propaganda, simply because they get exposed to facts, reality and pushback. The question now becomes whether we are able to hang on until those new generations grow up, gain seats of power and start improving things for the common man instead of the wealthy.

Agreed 100%

Lots of working people in this country have no sense they are not bothered and they are selfish. Paying bonuses to tory scum bag investors for doing nothing is a joke just like capitalism It don't work String the tory scum up like the omans did with jesus christ ok

I agree completely. I think it's largely due to our media that people don't consider the fact that 'their country' is comprised of ordinary people who are just like them and who need a reasonable standard of living. Anyway, good luck Mick.

So true ! Unfortunately the political class, the media and the big corporations want to keep the British people ignorant.

It is warfare against the human Employee in the name of King Profit. ALL economic textbooks treat humans as if a "secretion" from property-things named "Households", consumed by the property-things known as Firms. Only the Owners of the properties benefit from that, not the humans.

Forever!

Same old same old every new year 😢

The more they pay the workforce the more it will cost the ordinary taxpayers. I dont believe the Govt on everything it says but surely that is clear.

The government are subsidising the railways since 2019

Sounds very unfare

@Reggie Smith or they could take the hit put of their millions in profit

General Election now.

They are on strike too.

Ye, they do honey. They're actively paying (compensation) the rail companies for revenue lost during worker strikes. The Govt are ganging up with big business on us workers

So who does?

You may have a point but they are being payed to run this country but not into the ground

😂 he is Marxists wait until they put your taxes up

@@garyfletcher1910 Fool

@@garyfletcher1910 The man that runs the poppy appeal is on more money than Mr lynch,troll somebody else because your living in cuckoo land.

@@garyfletcher1910 The head of the charity fool,

The people are brainwashed from early education. It is warfare against the human Employee in the name of King Profit. ALL economic textbooks treat humans as if a "secretion" from property-things named "Households", consumed by the property-things known as Firms. Only the Owners and Controllers of those properties benefit from that, not the humans.

Yes sir. Pity not everyone recognises and understands like you, and most other fair minded people. Instead of telling TV camera crews in the street how fed up they are with all the inconvenience. HIGNFY: things will be lot worse than now, if this bunch of modern day Nazis achieve their aim, and bring about the fourth Reich, that one Adolf Hitler never managed to achieve.

Hasn’t got any results yet calm down

Plebs don't get recognition from social parasites like kings mate.

Only tw*ts are given honours. I mean tom Watson/ruth smeeth/ratched reilly.

They did that, they had a deal on the table that the RMT could put to a ballot and when it was sent off to Whitehall for ratification it came back with several amendments including driver only operation.

@@elboobio5920 yea and that just proves the government can't be trusted. But a ballot should be done without the government permission or knowledge, and then the results published publicly before Government have any chance of seeing it, influencing it, changing it, anything. The government is clearly responsible for this prolonged strike and its expansion because all they see the general public are as slaves. Thats what 12 years of tory government have made the general public. Slaves and destitute. NO MORE power to the people and the Unions. Power to the nurses, fire fighters, police, ambulance crews and the rail staff.

Travel in Amsterdam is very good indeed

@@mypointofview1111 The metro broke down on us once. According to a local that isn't unknown but overall I was impressed.

And from all downtrodden, UK working class, salt-of-the-earth folks as well, may I make so bold? Suffering under the Jackboot of tyranny.

Leave it to the market so long as Capital wins over Labour.

Yup and soon enough they will be ideologically opposed to being in power

Bingo

Yes, one example that chimed with me was the Tory ideology, and dogma for money saving. To benefit their donor giving 'vested interests'. One way being driverless trains. They argue, in support of a case; and an ideal that exists only in their own imagination, that driverless trains are essential to future life on Earth. As a step further to guard-less trains. Indeed they already have them, on the Docklands Light Railway; a representative of the Tory regime informed Mr Lynch at a parliamentary select committee interview. No corrects Mr Lynch, DLR trains all have a qualified driver on them. Therefore they are not driverless. Collapse of stout party... Tells you all you need to know about the 'Church of Scientology' mentality of these psychopaths...

Well said 👍

Too simple a concept for those corrupted by worship of the god 'Mammon' to comprehend; or embrace...

They close lines during the weekends for maintenance but have always provided a 7 day service. This nonsense has been said before usually by people that have no idea of how the railway works

@@colinsixhitter3303 Thanks Colin. Of course not all engineering works are carried out on a weekend as us professionals know. As it's been said by Mick Lynch before the mainline only runs with the drivers doing rest day working - Harper as you quite rightly said doesn't have a clue even though he's the minister in the know....

@@stephenjon3502I worked on BR as a structures Examiner for many years and later in the private sector and the amount of times ministers for transport or the puppets they put in charge demonstrate how little they understand the railway or its importance to our economy. The railway has every trade and many unique to the rail and yet no one thinks past a train driver. They work in all weathers in all hours in every part of this country including xmas day. A living wage be damned, a thriving wage to match the fat cats thriving profits is what the railway workers deserve.

@@colinsixhitter3303 Yes Colin it's certainly not like any normal job outside. I was an instructor for 10 years and a guard/ driver for 23 before that. Came across many very clever people from outside that applied and not many had much in the way of common sense, hence the failure rate was about 40%. The job went downhill about 10 years ago when they stopped recruiting thru the grades and started employing uni grads with media degrees. I do recall one of them having a complete meltdown, crying her eyes out when she managed to block both the Up and down on 4 platforms. Wasn't pretty..

@@stephenjon3502 My experience was much the same. I joined BR as a bricky with the intention of paying my tax bills and then moving on but the sick pay, holidays regular wage and BR pension changed my mind from following the next feast and the famine that always followed so I stayed. I was told the dregs of the world worked on the rail but what I found were mainly good people and whole families, generations of rail workers but that were never valued by the politicians that sold off BR and sold us out. I worked my way through the grades like you and became an Bridge Examiner. After privatisation the real waste began. People with no railway knowledge telling those with years how things work or new brooms fresh from university repeating all the failures of the past and refusing to listen to the warnings from the old hands. Our pension the day before privatisation were platinum status because it was backed by the government and the day after it fell to silver and of course the new bosses telling us the pensions were unaffordable. That is when I became a rep for the TSSA.

I hope not neil

Yeh funny he has called a strike not resolved one he earns over 80k and lives ins subsidised social housing, the guy is another labour champagne socialist

@@TheJbsportstech stupidest comment ever. get your stuff straight first. You don't even know who you talking about :) Only picking up bits and pieces from tabloids so you can construct your own fasle story? :)

@@beatinspector where am I wrong ? It’s all true fact check so your comment seems stupid on reflection. He admitted he gets that much to piers Morgan