Mick Lynch

Marvanelli said:
Madeley asked a silly question.

He deserved a silly answer.

Yes Mick should have rose above it.

But it was nice to see RM get what he deserved and then proceeded to make himself look like the complete clown he always has been.
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Some people I know took a different view of this - saying Mick came out looking the daft guy.
They are, what I”d have called previously his ‘surprising fans’.
He won’t lose me and you but he needs to be careful if he wants to keep the momentum (for want of a better word) 😳
 
Hammies_Tash said:
My son trained engineer for network rail, started as an apprentice 12yrs ago, he was basically bullied in to joining the union in his first week as apprentice, he asked my opinion, I'm not a fan of unions so told to make his own mind up, he joined with reluctance. Came out after a year, at 19 years old he said he couldn't believe how backward looking the union is and wasn't prepared to fund them. He now runs a small rail engineering company in the private sector mainly in Europe. If he stayed with network rail he would be on £60k+ a year for his job, same job in the EU would be around £35k.
He thinks Network Rail could shed 40% of their workforce if they fully modernised to todays standards. One example Mick is fighting for even though he 'accepts modernisation' - Network Rail still do the majority of fault checking with 'walkers' chaps who walk the lines checking and identifying faults. 95% of this could be done with camera trains, but Mick won't accept any redundancies, he wants these 'walkers' of which around 80% could be replaced with technology to be guaranteed jobs elsewhere. It the same across the whole network, modernisation is welcomed by the union but there can't be any redundancies just natural wastage. Mick's a very good politicain and dodges most of the meaningful questions, and turns on the public sympathy taps, his poor vastly overpaid union members are suffering like everyone else.
Guess we will continue to pay stupidly high rail fares, for a generally a sub standard service, just to Mick and his union happy.
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Do you write modern fiction by any chance?
 
Madeley is simply not clever enough to have a level debate. This is why he ranted.
He heard Lynch rinse Michelle Hussain this morning and his only means of defence wad to shout and ask silly questions.
It's a shame because the blue rinse brigade will love him for it.
MicknLynch should be more selective in who he talks to and fk the likes of Madeley right OFF
 
SuperStu said:
You'd think so but it's worked very well for the tories over the years!
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The Tories rely on the Brexit generation as their base and the deliberate strategy to not negotiate and resolve the current raft of industrial action is all designed to damage Labour.

It's an appalling position to take, to play into the 'loony left' narrative, demonise unions and assoicate Labour to them as the same entity.

We've heard Sunank and other MP's state that it would cost each household £1000 to satisfy Union demands, or £28bn in total.

Independent calculations put the figure around a quarter of that - its a demonstrable lie and sadly this type of politics is the norm for this government.
 
Hammies_Tash said:
My son trained engineer for network rail, started as an apprentice 12yrs ago, he was basically bullied in to joining the union in his first week as apprentice, he asked my opinion, I'm not a fan of unions so told to make his own mind up, he joined with reluctance. Came out after a year, at 19 years old he said he couldn't believe how backward looking the union is and wasn't prepared to fund them. He now runs a small rail engineering company in the private sector mainly in Europe. If he stayed with network rail he would be on £60k+ a year for his job, same job in the EU would be around £35k.
He thinks Network Rail could shed 40% of their workforce if they fully modernised to todays standards. One example Mick is fighting for even though he 'accepts modernisation' - Network Rail still do the majority of fault checking with 'walkers' chaps who walk the lines checking and identifying faults. 95% of this could be done with camera trains, but Mick won't accept any redundancies, he wants these 'walkers' of which around 80% could be replaced with technology to be guaranteed jobs elsewhere. It the same across the whole network, modernisation is welcomed by the union but there can't be any redundancies just natural wastage. Mick's a very good politicain and dodges most of the meaningful questions, and turns on the public sympathy taps, his poor vastly overpaid union members are suffering like everyone else.
Guess we will continue to pay stupidly high rail fares, for a generally a sub standard service, just to Mick and his union happy.
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Cards on the table, he’s called Ciaran and works several jobs in several striking sectors, earning 75k for each of them, doesn’t he?
 
Hammies_Tash said:
My son trained engineer for network rail, started as an apprentice 12yrs ago, he was basically bullied in to joining the union in his first week as apprentice, he asked my opinion, I'm not a fan of unions so told to make his own mind up, he joined with reluctance. Came out after a year, at 19 years old he said he couldn't believe how backward looking the union is and wasn't prepared to fund them. He now runs a small rail engineering company in the private sector mainly in Europe. If he stayed with network rail he would be on £60k+ a year for his job, same job in the EU would be around £35k.
He thinks Network Rail could shed 40% of their workforce if they fully modernised to todays standards. One example Mick is fighting for even though he 'accepts modernisation' - Network Rail still do the majority of fault checking with 'walkers' chaps who walk the lines checking and identifying faults. 95% of this could be done with camera trains, but Mick won't accept any redundancies, he wants these 'walkers' of which around 80% could be replaced with technology to be guaranteed jobs elsewhere. It the same across the whole network, modernisation is welcomed by the union but there can't be any redundancies just natural wastage. Mick's a very good politicain and dodges most of the meaningful questions, and turns on the public sympathy taps, his poor vastly overpaid union members are suffering like everyone else.
Guess we will continue to pay stupidly high rail fares, for a generally a sub standard service, just to Mick and his union happy.
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There is so much wrong with this post, I don’t even know where to begin. So much of it is just bollox.
 
Ziggy said:
Don’t forget that the government indemnify the train companies against all their potential losses from any industrial action.
They can sit out as long as it lasts at no cost to them…it’s our money they’re using.
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That's my worry - it's got The Miners Strike written all over it.
I think Mick can keep going using that line btw

Lets hope we get back to 1-1 this time
 
1finny said:
Worth a read - certainly helped my understanding

www.theguardian.com

Mick Lynch is right – the BBC has swallowed the anti-strike agenda of the Daily Mail | Zoe Williams

The RMT leader says the broadcaster has taken the rightwing press’s line when it comes to workers’ rights. He has a point, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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And she is spot on.
Normally a wet blanket Husain's questioning was out of character and aggresive,
I think she normally gets the train to work.
 
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