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Saw this shared on Twitter, and I have to say I wasn’t aware of all of this- but it shows the absolute justification the RMT have for a strike. Any one of these issues would be enough for a strike.
It would be good to share this as widely as possible.
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seeing a lot of discourse within the british media about these strikes, most notably the fact that several pundits and politicians are claiming that raising wages will "increase inflation".
to be completely blunt, this claim is absolute bullshit. wages haven't kept up with inflation since the 2007 financial crisis, and yet corporations (e.g. private rail companies) have reported record profits. so how the fuck is it acceptable for corporations to enjoy massive profits, but when workers demand pay rises to be able to afford to live, its somehow wrong?
and yes, i know strikes are disruptive, but that's kind of the fucking point. direct action, whether industrial or social only works when disruptive.
so yeah, support the strikes, support workers, and fuck the companies who refuse to pay them properly.
#socialism#marxism#communism#socialist#anarchism#leftist#leftism#communist#left wing#ancom#rmt strike#rmt union#trade unions#syndicalism#anarcho syndicalism#trade unionism#unionize#protest#industrial action#direct action#left unity#politics#ukpolitics#british politics#anti capitalism#anticapitalism#antiwar#right to protest#right to strike#rail strikes
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Strikes are a great opportunity to consciously appreciate what other people do for you without u noticing! Which is 1. Good for our common wellbeing (builds solidarity). 2. Good for your personal wellbeing (gratitude, hope, and connection are better headmates than despair, alienation, and loneliness). 3. Good for wellbeing of the strike and the union (directs the anger about the strike where they should be, aimed the people who are mistreating workers)
Like @ my UK folllowers. The rail strike is super fucking annoying right? You can't get where you need to go! Your life is more difficult right now. The flip side of that is these rail workers have been making your life quietly, subtly easier for years and years and years!
Capitalism loves to obscure these relationships - and it's true that they're mostly impersonal relationships. You're not FRIENDS with everyone who grows your food or makes your clothes or drives your trains or cleans your city.
You will never meet most of the people whose daily work supports your life - or most of the people who benefit from your work! But they're real. We're real. And we're really helping each other. That's a real connection. They're people you owe a lot to.
And these people who make your life better every day are suffering for it! They haven't been treated fairly or right.
It's easy to just get annoyed at the inconvenience of strike action, and God knows there are powerful forces urging that annoyance. But this is how we can regain some of our lost humanity, in this system of violence that crushes us all. This is what solidarity is. These people have been helping you. This is time to learn, connect, support. Help them back.
#unions#strike action#rmt union#rmt strike#I'm preaching to the choir on tumblr I know#But i'm right#This gratitude stuff isn't a game. It's urgent and needed.#Me Fein#Being angry and scared and disconnected doesn't help us#Also I couldn't find a strike fund to add to this post if anyone has one Lmk#gratitude#mick lynch#I'm posting this to mick Lynch's tag because lots of people are using it but look at me!!!! We are NOT going to build a cult of personality#We simply aren't. girlies we are not gonna do it.
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RMT strike, Lime Street, Liverpool, December 2022
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#mick lynch#rmt#rmt union#RMT STRIKE#ukpol#uk politics#politics#the way he just ended Jonathan Gullis like that#hook it to my veins
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The government are saying they won’t get involved with the RMT strikes, and then this - which will also cause way more disruption than 3 days of strike action.
Anyway, you can donate to the RMT strike fund here: https://www.rmt.org.uk/about/national-dispute-fund/
Their fight is our fight.
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THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT: Lynch, the general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) union, said he believed a deal could be reached but that ministers had been absent since a meeting in mid-December…
He said: “We’ve outlined what we need to make progress; these are experienced people we’re dealing with, but the government simply will not give a mandate to the employers, Network Rail and the train operators that will allow this deal to be resolved.
“They’re sitting on their hands and are noted by their absence from this scene. They keep saying that they’re facilitating a deal. And I think it’s absolutely the opposite to that.”
Lynch added: “The executives who run the industry day on day are in despair at what the government is making them say in these talks.” [?]
The RMT leader said the union was looking for a settlement, with “sensible proposals”, but said the government was “out of their depth.”
Lynch said policy was behind problems on the railway. He said: “They’ve given us a structure that simply doesn’t work: abandoned franchising, they’ve abandoned their latest Greater British Rail [sic]… they stumble from one day to another and all they want to do is bash the unions.”
#there is no government#special relationship#uk oligarchs#anarchy in the uk#rmt strike#rmt union#tory lies#tory scum#tory britain
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Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) has been in the media all day talking about the rail strikes and god what a great spokesperson he has been for them.
Here he is handling some ridiculous line of questioning from Kay Burley who is trying to suggest the union will be encouraging violence on the picket lines and referencing the 1980’s miners strikes, which is pretty absurd for a whole host of reasons:
Here he is calling Chris Philp, a Tory MP and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport a liar approximately 900 times for spouting nonsense on Newsnight (I can only post one vid so these will be links)
Here he is telling Richard Madeley he’s talking “twaddle” for asking him if he’s a Marxist, which tbh I think was polite because imo Richard Madeley is just a c u n t xx
And if you’ve any uncertainty as to why rail workers are striking, these two clips will be a good place to start
#join a union#don’t scab#and remember why it matters#solidarity forever#fuck the tories#never cross a picket line#mick lynch#rmt#rail strikes#union reps
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