Mick Lynch

RMT union leader, Mick Lynch, raised eyebrows as he told Baroness Chapman "I don't even know who you are" during an interview about the ongoing rail strikes ...

But it appeared Lynch wasn't having it as he volleyed back, "I didn't tell you you weren't working-class...I don't even know your name." The Labour front-bencher winced as she defended herself by adding: "Well...there you go...so don't tell me I'm not working-class or whatever." RMT union leader, Mick Lynch, raised eyebrows as he told Baroness Chapman "I don't even know who you are" during an interview about the ongoing rail strikes.

The union chief said he 'couldn't believe the line of questioning' from the Sky News host as rail workers began the biggest industrial action in a ...

We’re in a picket line and we’ll ask them not to go to work. Ms Burley went on: “I just wondered what else it might involve because... The union chief said he “couldn’t believe the line of questioning” from the Sky News host as rail workers began the biggest industrial action in a generation on Tuesday morning.

Billionaires control our politics and our press, yet we're told unions are the real enemy of the British worker.

Yet the spectre of the ‘British public’ is used as a shield by mouthpieces of the wealthy to attack organised labour. Look at soaring company profits and billionaire wealth, and you’ll see that that’s happening right across the economy. Then Labour front bencher Jenny Chapman, stung by Lynch’s suggestion that Labour no longer understood the working class, tried to draw him into a personal discussion about her own background, something he hadn’t brought up. After Lynch called out Burley’s scaremongering, the veteran news anchor tweeted indignantly that her father had been a trade union leader, as though this somehow cancelled out the fact she had just insinuated that workers might become violent if agency workers were brought in. We could talk for hours about the causes of this, but the simplest is that, in the negotiation over who gets the wealth we all produce with our work, bosses and owners are getting more and more, and workers are getting less and less. The media should interpret reality back to the public. The pundits and politicians facing him off have adopted the curious position that unions are the real enemy of the worker, framing the RMT as intransigent dinosaurs holding rail-reliant ‘ordinary people’ to ransom. Only the Greens seem to support the union. Labour, the supposed party of the organised working class, has pledged to punish any MPs who support striking workers. While wages have been stagnant for most people in the country over the last 15 years or so, and are about to be eaten up by soaring inflation, the cumulative wealth of the top ten billionaires in the UK has grown from £48bn in 2009 to £182bn in 2022 – an increase of 281%. There are more billionaires than ever before, and their wealth surged during the pandemic. Follow the British media – largely owned by those gleeful billionaires – and you’d think it was all the other way around. And it’s not just the oligarchs.

Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) leader Mick Lynch kept his cool during questioning from Ms Burley.

"Do you not know how a picket line works?" "What will they do if those agency workers try to cross the picket lines?" "The government is saying that they are going to bring in agency workers; my question to you is, I'm guessing that some of your member's will stay on the picket lines?"

The general secretary for RMT – the main union leading the rail strikes – has been thrust into the spotlight in recent days to explain why 40,000 workers are ...

As the presenter continued to ask what the strikers’ picketing involves, he said: “You can see what picketing involves, I can’t believe this line of questioning. I don’t even know your name!” “I don’t even know who you are,” Lynch replied.

Union chief had a series of fiery clashes on TV yesterday (21 June)

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “Does anyone know how I can buy Mick Lynch a pint tonight, because the man absolutely deserves it,” added another. “Is it just me or if Mick Lynch was leader of the Labour party it would be 20 points clear in the polls?

During appearances on BBC News, Sky News and ITV, he's batted away questions targeting his own personal political affiliations, as well as taking Tory MPs head ...

The union wants a 7 per cent pay rise and has rejected an offer of 2 per cent with a further 1 per cent tied to job cuts.Have your say in our news democracy. Lynch said Philp was telling "a direct lie" and claimed he would “absolutely” be prepared to negotiate with a Tory government. Lynch then told Baroness Chapman "I don't even know who you are" during an interview with Politics Live about the ongoing strikes. It began after Philp claimed: ″Mick Lynch has previously said he would not negotiate with a Tory government." He also questioned Kay Burley’s line of questioning of the nature of RMT workers picketing during an interview with Sky News, saying: “Your questions are verging into the nonsense.” Then there came an abrasive exchange between Lynch and Chris Philp on Newsnight, which saw him accuse the Tory MP of '"lying" and being a "liar" a grand today of 16 times.

MICK LYNCH is the boss of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, whose members are striking in their thousands over job losses, pay and conditions.Bu.

But in May 2021, he stood in and won the election for the permanent position of General Secretary. Lynch served two terms as assistant general secretary of the RMT, and two terms on its executive. "I understand the anger of people - but I also understand the anger of our workers. Lynch previously served two terms as assistant general secretary of the RMT, earning £100k-a-year in pay and benefits. In 1993, he began working for Eurostar, to which he became active in the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT). MICK LYNCH is the boss of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, whose members are striking in their thousands over job losses, pay and conditions.

So, the two-bob Che Guevara has got his way. He's done what he's been determined to do since he became boss of one of the country's most militant unions ...

Let’s not allow bunch of pampered, greedy train drivers and rail workers to cause this country any more pain that its currently suffering. Tell that to the 14,000 Rolls Royce workers who this week were each given a £2,000 lump sum payment by their bosses to help cope with the cost of living crisis. Never mind that this strike and his determination to take us back five decades will cost a fragile hospitality industry £540m in seven days – an industry that was only just recovering after the pandemic. He drones on about solidarity but the kind of solidarity he peddles is hurting this country’s poorest. So the hellish work environment Lynch describes is also all in his head. Oh and they don’t have to work Sundays and they can retire at 62. Since 2011 real term pay rises have been 17.2 percent while in the last ten years train drivers have seen their wages rise by a gargantuan 39 percent when the UK average is just percent. He's done what he's been determined to do since he became boss of one of the country's most militant unions - he's brought Britain to a standstill. Lynch’s strike has stopped millions getting to work, it’s stopped patients having operations and getting to vital health appointments. It’s stopped the poorly paid – the very people Lynch professes to champion – from getting to work. But then he doesn’t want to part of the 21st century. How triumphant and powerful must he feel now – vindicated even, that the man who was once bullied now has all the power.

STRIKES are underway across Britain's rail network after a last attempt at talks between unions and rail bosses failed on Monday.

People who were really at the real front line of all this?" did Mick Lynch just drop a solid gold clip on every news channel he went on this morning? "Why are we not giving nurses 11% pay rises? “People are stripping money out of the railway, they’re stripping money out of the economy. People also seemed to enjoyed his interview with Sophy Ridge who quizzed Lynch about the impact of a pay rise on inflation. The RMT is seeking a pay rise of at least 7%, in line with the rise in the cost of living.

The RMT union boss Mick Lynch is currently dominating TV screens and social media, making mincemeat out of politicians and broadcast interviewers alike.

Sometimes the little things matter – I can remember a famous carmaker agreeing to supply the shopfloor with free copies of the Morning Star as a carrot in negotiations with a hard-left shop steward. But for the sake of us viewers, let's hope politicians follow his lead and actually start answering a few more questions. It strikes me he is bringing to the screen the same persona he uses in negotiations, which I imagine his opponents from rail management would find infuriating. To be fair to Piers (not a comment made lightly) it was a 15-minute interview, an unusual long-form in this age of snapshot social media clips, in which the RMT boss was able to make an extended and well-presented case for the strike. It is a masterclass in how to handle the media. When Sky News' Kay Burley tried to conjure up images of Grunwick or NUM-style flying pickets violently preventing workers and commuters from entering stations, he simply stood to one side to show her a handful of RMT workers allowing passengers to go by.

Mick Lynch accused Richard Madeley of coming up with “the most remarkable twaddle” in a blistering GMB appearance this week.

Former Tory MP Rory Stewart praised Lynch for his handling of the question, suggesting others should “study his techniques.” He said: “I’m not a Marxist, I’m an elected official of the RMT, I’m a working-class bloke leading a trade union dispute about jobs, pay and conditions.” Mick Lynch accused Richard Madeley of coming up with “the most remarkable twaddle” in a blistering GMB appearance this week.