This is just short of a miracle. A media interview with Mick, where the interviewer isn't trying - in vain - to entrap, trick or belittle him. By their constant, negative coverage of the unions, the main stream media is having some impact on public opinion, though. Their efforts to divide the working-class for their corporate masters, can only be defeated by solidarity - not jealousy - with all workers.
I'm not sure it's having a serious impact on public opinion now. You'd have to be in a coma not to see the dead hand of the government trying to extend this action and break the strikers. Not just the rail guys either !! This is 101 dogma from the Tories or Thatcher 2.0 !!!!!
@@DrMontague they are fighting for a fair capitalistic system. If you think forcing people into poverty, creating huge wealth gaps to line their friends pockets, destroying free health care, oh and then making it a legal obligation to go to work, taking away your freedom of choice, is what capitalism is….. Think you need to diverse your news sources.
He represents the workforce aka the people, who need a calm and intelligent person speaking on their behaviour. He knows what’s happening and he understands the end goals of the corrupt Tory party. I am rooting for him and all the workers who have not had a pay increase for how many years and are just making ends meet. People who are financially comfortable need to step into the shoes of a workers who cannot afford to pay for a bus ride or food. They need to lean humility and empathy for people who are struggling on a day to day basis.
@Heather Moore The previous prime minister cost the country £30 billion because of her guileless incompetence over a matter of naive ideology. And you think he’s bringing the country to its knees. Please, open your eyes!
You are doing a great job Mick, please take care of yourself, the Tories and media are trying to wear you down, don’t let them! We are right behind you.
@@MrPatch25 well then your either confused or ignorant. I hope you don't work in the public sector because if the government gets what they want, they are coming for all the other public sectors
It's a hard fight. I hope Mick Lynch is looking after himself. In these few recent interviews he's appeared weary, which is understandable. The establishment want a race to the bottom. Someone should make a list of all the mistakes different governments have made where billions of money has either been wasted or given to their cronies (eg PPE) vs what public sector workers are asking for, then ask Sunak et al, why it's okay for them and not for us.
personally I'm confident he will be fine. it's insane to face down the full brunt of a sociopathic economic machine even with the backing of organized ppl. he's good at what he does.
There might be good reasons to outsource for smaller companies, but larger firms just do it to avoid paying for decent benefits. Also, the NHS should employ ALL it's cleaners directly.
What these disputes reveal is just how much time, money, and effort goes into keeping workers impoverished and over worked. Far more is spent on keeping most people down than is required to just give everyone the means to live a dignified life. There comes a point when greed isn't even the motivating factor, it's sadism. The cruelty of our leaders in the UK and US would make Vlad The Impaler blush.
Mick is one hell of a guy . I'm 60 years old now and I've watched the rights of the common man stripped away over many years, the establishment have ground us, and what used to be a Great Britain down bit by bit over a long period of time. I just pray we can have a revolution in the not to distant future, why that's easy, if nothing is done now It's our children and our children's children that are going to live in a society were every human right and what we would class as normal liberty will be totally controlled by the establishment. I can ramble on for ages but you have just said it all, everything I've been saying for years is in this interview. Mick keep up the good work, there are many like me behind you .
Spot on Alan Wood, I'm 54 so not so far behind you and like you I have seen the slow degradation of the working classes. I have been made redundant twice in my working life. The first time when I worked for Asda. The chief executive was non other than Archie Norman the then chairman of the conservatives. He was the major shareholder of the company, as part of our wage package we had a sharesave scheme, which would have given us you would have thought some voting rights in how the company was run. Norman and his cronies the richest share holders sold the company out from under the workers to Walmart an American supermarket chain, making them even richer. About a month after getting my pittance of a redundancy after 15 yrs I received a letter from a debt collection agency threatening to take me to court saying that they had paid me twice. Just goes to show the conservatives are Whores, they not only fucked me but now they are fucking the whole country. Ps sorry for the language.
@@aronbrewer7466 Overheard today two blokes talking about houses built in the 1970 having bigger rooms and more space generally, this is so true, the UK was booming in the late 1960s and through to the early 1980s until the Tories, Thatcher, got into power and started destroying everything & tanked the economy. Houses built from then were smaller and became far more expensive. An interesting way to view the country is to look at housing. Thatcher by the way was the person who, together with Reagan in America, deregulated the banks allowing them to lend more and borrow from each other. 20 years later, the 2008 sub-prime mortgage crash happened because of this. It seems to me that Conservative governments do the most damage to the UK, whilst Labour governments spend all their time repairing it. Over the last 50 years, the Conservatives have been in power for over 35 of them, and it shows.
I keep hearing back in the day this and back in the day that , From people who openly elect the people causing the decline because they think a Reference to make Britain great again means a return to those days . UK is broken and it's being sold off for scrap now , It's a terrible place the good old days won't return u til a systemic change happens in government and in the media .
@@toritori4430 Exactly. One more thing, every time in my life that we have a CONservative government, the population becomes increasingly selfish, greedy, intolerant & nasty. With a Labour government, this is reversed and the population becomes more caring & helpful towards each other.
He's right about the agency NHS staff costs being much higher than the costs of permanent staff. That's why it's more than feasible to pay a 19% award. When agency staff are paid twice the wages.
The whole agency staff thing is rather hard to grasp unless one gets to the basics on it. On the NHS issue, (and we need to be specific , I am only talking about the NHS) we need to know why the extra staff need to be recruited, for how long, and where If a ward needs one nurse for one day then an agency may be a good option, even though the agency may typically take over 15% in commission If the wing occasionally requires on average, two nurses a day, and then the hospital requires say, 10 per day, but only all for one day, , it would make sense perhaps to have one senior nurse to float but employed by the hospital.. Multiply that by the hospitals in the district on the general requirements and it makes sense to dump the agency who are effectively like the leach that charge so much commission to sell a house.. What do we all not like? Leeches and grinches.. Mismanagement in the system is the main cause of waste I think. I am aware of the kick backs some get, or may be offered, even just the odd bottle of wine. Once we sort the mismanagement we can sort the pay to staff. 19% ? I do sort of think they need a good wage seeing as they year on year get stomped on. !9% may be a little too much, but who knows, pay them or lose them.
@@midjehunt7424 my ward currently has 30% of the nurses it needs to cover shifts. This is fairly common on most wards, just look at nurse vacancies. It's been made worse by the conservatives decision to remove the bursary for nurses in 2015, meaning fewer people can afford to train
@@jennifermarlow. this is basically how it used to run before Tory privateers got their claws in. NHS had an in-house bank of temp nurses who would float between hospitals for a fraction that Tory owned private agencies cost.
He's not right, this is children's economics. NHS is extremely overpaid. RMT workers are extremely overpaid. I have yet to encounter a single Mick Lynch supporter able to explain to me why train drivers should make 50 thousand pounds a year to push a button and drive in a straight line (usually late).
@@cujimmi anyone could say it and it would still be a true statement. Thieving corporate fifth columnists have launched a war on Britain, the British economy and the British people.
Avanti were awarded well over £6 million for 6 months in 2021 for performance related bonuses. This is despite the following… Services offered fell by over 21% The trains that did run were on time just over 55% of the time. This money was paid by the government from U.K taxpayers. Enough is enough
What kind of vile disgusting traitor does this as the nation and half the world recovers from the pandemic effects and tackles a crisis caused by Putin? Oh how I wish the great Maggie was here to deal with the union sc*m.
More Micks are the order of the day. Tells the truth and answers questions fully. Clearly has nothing to hide, unlike those who aren't honest and respectable who are trying their hardest to crush workers.
striking workers ? Not a worker if you do not work, you are just a rotting slab of useless flesh . Hope you have plenty of cash to see you through the strike. The longer it goes on the more I earn.
@@DrMontague why are you commenting on nearly every post things that hold 0 point? The tories were voted in on lies. Upon lies. Then even the Tory public didn’t even vote for them. They just changed each other around as they pleased, N now we have a completely different animal. Left or right it doesn’t matter, what matters is we come together and fight for the basic rights to live, is it that hard? Or do you want a extremely large class divide that you seem to be pushing for?
Mick Lynch is my hero! A true working class hero who is so learned and eloquent and truly tells it like it is. And the man has so much patience even with the likes of that 'Dick' Madeley! These strikes represent not just the power struggle between the unions and this current political administration but also the basic fundamental schism between all workers and the powers that be who want to strip them of their hard won rights. The two sides are diametrically opposed and the fact that so many different workers want to and are striking is testament to this fact. I for one could never trust the Tories, their motives are always suspect. Mick Lynch for PM - what a beautiful idea!!
@@dylan120190 and politicians don’t manage unions of over 100k people either. People running corporations of a fraction of that number are earned £200-800k plus bonuses on top. It’s definitely a steal of a wage by RMT and it’s members considering his competency as a union official and advocate for the members.
_I was thinking whilst listening to this...isn't it nice to finally have some civilised conversation, that's hopeful, reaslistic, and open to the challenges? He's absolutely right about the army of people who support the NHS, I can relate this to an aggressive patient we had brought in on the ambulance, a big guy, and having security there to help defuse and protect me and my crewmate, I can't be thankful enough. You're damn right I went and got him a coffee after that._
Mick is a legend. The govts attitude to these negotiations is nothing short of a disgrace. Mick and Eddie Dempsey have frequently been negotiating with rail companies, organising meetings with the express intentions of coming to an amicable agreement, yet the Govt at the last minute then refuse to meet or negotiate. Often times Mick and Eddie are travelling to prearranged meetings when they have received a call from the train company they were meant to be meeting, saying the Govt have ordered them not to negotiate. This is just disgusting juvenile behaviour by a desperate govt with nothing left in the tank. Let's get everyone behind the strikes, stop whining and moaning about the disruption to your daily life because you are just playing to the govts narrative. Look at the amount of different sectors who are joining these strikes on a daily basis. It started with the RMT then the CWU now the nurses closely followed by the ambulance service. The fire brigades union are balloting their members, now border force staff are joining the strikes, the armed forces can't be expected to cover everything. I predict there is going to be a general strike across the country within the next 2-3 months so people need to start making preparations. Look to the govt if you want to apportion blame. The nurses union openly said they would suspend strike action if the govt would just come to the table, the govt outright refused so there you go.
Look at their owners and their political donations, then you have your answers. Same with everything, look at what MPs say and who gives them money, it matches up quite scarily.
@@DrMontague why are you commenting on nearly every post things that hold 0 point? They were voted in on lies. Upon lies. Then we didn’t even vote for them. N now we have a completely different animal. Left or right it doesn’t matter, what matters is we come together and fight for the basic rights to live, is it that hard? Or do you want a extremely large class divide that you seem to be pushing for?
Spot on blaming the Conservative Government, they have never had any empathy with the working person! They saw the EU immigration system as a way of keeping pay down with Maggie's theory of more competition keeping prices down? BUT this went ballistic when that market dried up with companies buy outs and reclaiming our Sovereignty. No coincidence that workers need pay rises, there years of hands off approach (or lack of management) is now passed to the consumer, Mick Lynch and others like him, speak for the working people, who have seen a decline in living standards over the years, yet there is no real innovative opposition since the forties
@@DrMontague why are you commenting on nearly every post things that hold 0 point? They were voted in on lies. Upon lies. Then we didn’t even vote for them. N now we have a completely different animal. Left or right it doesn’t matter, what matters is we come together and fight for the basic rights to live, is it that hard? Or do you want a extremely large class divide that you seem to be pushing for?
@@aronbrewer7466 Where are all the mega rich pop stars and tv celebrities? Are they putting money into a strike fund? Food banks etc. Where are the spice girls and girl power now? They are quite prepared to watch working class mothers suffer, mothers who probably went to see them. Oh I forgot their hero was MARGRET THATCHER!
What a breath of fresh air. An intelligent interview on both sides. Calm, thought provoking and factual. I've been involved in trade unions all my life and have had many a run in with my employer over the years. Never for pay, always to retain conditions that have been hard won over the years. Well done Mick and the rail workers. This battle is worth the fight, lose your employment conditions now, they are lost forever! BBC, Sky News, pay attention and see how to conduct a proper interview. Well done Polly Smythe.
Agree doing such a good job Mick but look after yourself. You’re more intelligent and personally aware than the idiots combined at Westminster. I would vote for you tomorrow. You know you are right, don’t listen to the media who say the public are weary now. We are not, I use trains regularly to visit family in Scotland and I support you all 100%. The governments are dragging their feet on purpose. You are fighting for everyone not just RMT members, whatever job you’re in, you’re being asked to do more for less. Best wishes to you and your family
The unions should give him a party. Nothing to stop him running in an election if he thinks he is smart enough. It would take more than talking Triang though, not sure he has the balls or brain for it. Besides, he gets paid while the rail staff stand on picket lines in the cold right? Why should he care?
Small businesses need someone like this gentleman, to represent us also, I been paying FSB for about 5 years to represent us but all they do is send me spam 3 times a day, never seen any results. Good to see someone representing the working people, I hope they succeed with their action, they are long overdue better conditions particularly decent pay.
Just read an article in the guardian online, Avanti west coast rail have just received £4m in taxpayer funded bonuses for running the worst services in the whole country, only 60% of trains running to designated time tables, the other 40% were cancelled completely. This govts are criminals, criminally incompetent and criminally negligent as well as criminally insane. Kier Starmer was the chief lawyer, he should be able to bring charges against the govt for bankrupting the country.
Sunak is so incredibly rich he has no idea that living on the breadline is an actual thing. By his own admission he has never known a working class person, he’s probably never come into contact with someone poor in his entire life.
Yeah and you're point is? If hes rich thats because his parents worked hard and used their brains , so why is that his fault maybe if you're parents where rich and worked hard and other people where on the breadline would that be your parents fault? No i don't think it would
@@boohoo8554 The point is he has no idea how poor people live, he asked a homeless person the other day if they worked in business, totally & utterly ignorant. The guy is homeless and has no money or food, what business would he be working in? Just because you’re rich it doesn’t mean you have to live in a bubble, that’s a choice, and if you choose to then you will never see reality. How can Sunak run a country if he doesn’t understand reality. Btw, Most working people work hard. If you think that the amount of money you earn is relative to how hard you work, you’re wrong.
@@boohoo8554 has simping this hard for billionaires helped you "use your brain" and get rich yet? Judging by mixing up you're and your, no, I don't think it has.
I am starting to think that the reason Rmt didn't get their deal is because it would have embarrassed the government and they would be forced to do a deal with the nurses.
spot on it's become a complete ideological battle, that's the real scary thing about it. the government know how many people are watching closely and theyre gonna try make an example out of them so they can continue pushing us in a further right libertarian direction. fucked up but we all need to support these guys because itll affect us all in the end.
He’d be blocked from ever getting near the labour leadership. British politics is bought and paid for by the minority who own the assets and wealth. The minority workers and their unions are fighting against.
@@jgmediting7770 I agree because all Avenues are blocked for a socialist to be a candidate let alone be the Labour leader , he would've been a better leader .
Here's why they are fine with outsourcing jobs in these fields; the agency gets two or even three times as much from the company as they pay employees. The agency staff filling that position usually only gets a pound or two more than the regular staff but get none of the responsibility. The rest of the money goes to the agency itself, which then donates again to the political party that helps them keep it this way.
This guy should be prime minister , the guy is truthful and has ordinary people in his thoughts , he does not lie unlike our prime minister who can’t even stand up straight he lies that much
Abstracting away from the topic of conversation, this chap is clearly a very well read highly intelligent individual. A breath of fresh air and agree with him or not he's engaging 👍
100% agree with Mick, always said they know what they are doing. They will wait because nurses will have no choice but to go agency, then when it’s the majority the NHS will be privatised and the contracts will not be honered as they are agency workers.
I applaud you sir, just a breath of fresh air and TRUTHFULNESS. This is what we need more of by the GOVERNMENT, but sadly no person there knows how to tell the Truth, or how to answer the questions put to them.
Mick Lynch reminds me so much of Uncle Joe Gormley. Cool, calm and collected at all times. He's a damn sight more intelligent than the media pshycophants.
The workers and the poorest in society are losing out whilst capitalists are trying to win a cruel game of Monopoly. These are the issues that even "Labour leader" Kier Starmer couldn't articulate.
_There are places in the UK already where I've witnessed increasing usage of private ambulance services. And it's the same work. You get the same calls, have usually better equipment, and the pay package is far more reasonable, and the overall working conditions are far nicer. It is no wonder the individual wants to move away from Trusts..._
This is just short of a miracle. A media interview with Mick, where the interviewer isn't trying - in vain - to entrap, trick or belittle him. By their constant, negative coverage of the unions, the main stream media is having some impact on public opinion, though. Their efforts to divide the working-class for their corporate masters, can only be defeated by solidarity - not jealousy - with all workers.
I'm not sure it's having a serious impact on public opinion now. You'd have to be in a coma not to see the dead hand of the government trying to extend this action and break the strikers. Not just the rail guys either !! This is 101 dogma from the Tories or Thatcher 2.0 !!!!!
Well put ...
Couldn’t agree more, someone intelligent and professional. Very refreshing .
Mick is a national treasure, such a genuine bloke who actually cares
Run by oligarch’s, will always be their agenda!!!
Gotta ♥️ Mick Lynch, he’s showing up the Tories for exactly what they are!✊
Julie he is also showing up Stamer who is more than useless
But labour will be worse
@@MrPatch25: Not worse, but largely the same.
He showing what the capitalist system is but which the workers will fight tooth n nail to defend
@@DrMontague they are fighting for a fair capitalistic system. If you think forcing people into poverty, creating huge wealth gaps to line their friends pockets, destroying free health care, oh and then making it a legal obligation to go to work, taking away your freedom of choice, is what capitalism is….. Think you need to diverse your news sources.
This was a very intelligent conversation. Mick Lynch absolutely knows his brief. He is a breadth of common sense
He's a BREATH OF FRESH AIR, nationalist pretend-dyslexic-person.
He represents the workforce aka the people, who need a calm and intelligent person speaking on their behaviour. He knows what’s happening and he understands the end goals of the corrupt Tory party.
I am rooting for him and all the workers who have not had a pay increase for how many years and are just making ends meet. People who are financially comfortable need to step into the shoes of a workers who cannot afford to pay for a bus ride or food.
They need to lean humility and empathy for people who are struggling on a day to day basis.
@Heather Moore The previous prime minister cost the country £30 billion because of her guileless incompetence over a matter of naive ideology. And you think he’s bringing the country to its knees. Please, open your eyes!
@Heather Moore I'd suggest you research the benefits to every worker that the likes of Mick Lynch have brought about over the years.
He is a lying scumbag.
You are doing a great job Mick, please take care of yourself, the Tories and media are trying to wear you down, don’t let them! We are right behind you.
You might be don't speak for others
Good luck to you Mick and all the people who are with you ,you will win because you are right
@@MrPatch25 well then your either confused or ignorant. I hope you don't work in the public sector because if the government gets what they want, they are coming for all the other public sectors
@@MrPatch25 He's speaking for the 'we' who are behind Mick Lynch. You can omit yourself from that number by not commenting.
@@MrPatch25 Yes, but you're a bellend
It's a hard fight. I hope Mick Lynch is looking after himself. In these few recent interviews he's appeared weary, which is understandable. The establishment want a race to the bottom. Someone should make a list of all the mistakes different governments have made where billions of money has either been wasted or given to their cronies (eg PPE) vs what public sector workers are asking for, then ask Sunak et al, why it's okay for them and not for us.
There's a just a bug going round
Yeah and dodgy software that never worked!
Except it weren't mistakes, that money ended up exactly where the govt wanted it
The "mini-budget" was proposed by the same party...? It wasn't a mistake...
personally I'm confident he will be fine. it's insane to face down the full brunt of a sociopathic economic machine even with the backing of organized ppl. he's good at what he does.
God's save Mick and all at Novara x
Top bloke Mick Lynch. The RMT workers are lucky to have him.
Long may he suck the earnings of the RMT
Working class hero Mr Lynch 👏👏
NOTNJUST 'WORKING ' CLASSE. ALL PEOPLE SHOULD WORK........NO,POVERTY.
Outsourcing is indeed the scourge of the working class, he's absolutely 100% spot on about that.
It goes on here with commuter rail in Boston. Subcontractor Keolis is an abomination.
Indeed, it just diminishes responsibility and puts the wages in someone else’s pocket.
Mitie are also deeply horrible to work for.
I wonder who voted bojo, everyone I talk to is in denial!
There might be good reasons to outsource for smaller companies, but larger firms just do it to avoid paying for decent benefits. Also, the NHS should employ ALL it's cleaners directly.
It's great to hear him talk without being harangued by utter plums like Dick Madeley or the gutter press. Keep up the good fight!
This is inspiring stuff. Well done Mick Lynch.
What these disputes reveal is just how much time, money, and effort goes into keeping workers impoverished and over worked. Far more is spent on keeping most people down than is required to just give everyone the means to live a dignified life. There comes a point when greed isn't even the motivating factor, it's sadism. The cruelty of our leaders in the UK and US would make Vlad The Impaler blush.
They haven’t finished yet , they want you as slaves , those who survive that is
I've been telling the fcuktards what your saying for years but still they sided with their exploiters and voted their representatives unto power
I'm afraid the time has come my friend........ .There is only one alternative and it's going to make Paris 1789 look tame hopefully.
It's not even greed anymore, it's sadism. Absolutely damn right.
@@stephenle-surf9893 The workers are masochists .
Brilliant bloke
a wonderful and upfront and honest interview
We need to listen to Mick Lynch and follow his lead. Enough is Enough!
A hero. Could listen to the man all day 🙏🏻
Wow, a rare chance to hear the man actually speak! I can’t believe he’s still got a sense of humour.. well done. ❤
He certainly has a sense of humour he voted for bojo, he wanted brexit done and bojo was the man.
He has a great SOH if he thinks he can hold the country to ransom and get away with it.
Mick is one hell of a guy .
I'm 60 years old now and I've watched the rights of the common man stripped away over many years, the establishment have ground us, and what used to be a Great Britain down bit by bit over a long period of time.
I just pray we can have a revolution in the not to distant future, why that's easy, if nothing is done now It's our children and our children's children that are going to live in a society were every human right and what we would class as normal liberty will be totally controlled by the establishment.
I can ramble on for ages but you have just said it all, everything I've been saying for years is in this interview.
Mick keep up the good work, there are many like me behind you .
Thanks for sharing this view. As a 27 year old it’s so refreshing to hear the older generation be vocally supportive!
Spot on Alan Wood, I'm 54 so not so far behind you and like you I have seen the slow degradation of the working classes. I have been made redundant twice in my working life. The first time when I worked for Asda. The chief executive was non other than Archie Norman the then chairman of the conservatives. He was the major shareholder of the company, as part of our wage package we had a sharesave scheme, which would have given us you would have thought some voting rights in how the company was run. Norman and his cronies the richest share holders sold the company out from under the workers to Walmart an American supermarket chain, making them even richer. About a month after getting my pittance of a redundancy after 15 yrs I received a letter from a debt collection agency threatening to take me to court saying that they had paid me twice. Just goes to show the conservatives are Whores, they not only fucked me but now they are fucking the whole country. Ps sorry for the language.
@@aronbrewer7466 Overheard today two blokes talking about houses built in the 1970 having bigger rooms and more space generally, this is so true, the UK was booming in the late 1960s and through to the early 1980s until the Tories, Thatcher, got into power and started destroying everything & tanked the economy. Houses built from then were smaller and became far more expensive. An interesting way to view the country is to look at housing.
Thatcher by the way was the person who, together with Reagan in America, deregulated the banks allowing them to lend more and borrow from each other. 20 years later, the 2008 sub-prime mortgage crash happened because of this. It seems to me that Conservative governments do the most damage to the UK, whilst Labour governments spend all their time repairing it. Over the last 50 years, the Conservatives have been in power for over 35 of them, and it shows.
I keep hearing back in the day this and back in the day that ,
From people who openly elect the people causing the decline because they think a
Reference to make Britain great again means a return to those days .
UK is broken and it's being sold off for scrap now ,
It's a terrible place the good old days won't return u til a systemic change happens in government and in the media .
@@toritori4430 Exactly. One more thing, every time in my life that we have a CONservative government, the population becomes increasingly selfish, greedy, intolerant & nasty. With a Labour government, this is reversed and the population becomes more caring & helpful towards each other.
He's right about the agency NHS staff costs being much higher than the costs of permanent staff. That's why it's more than feasible to pay a 19% award. When agency staff are paid twice the wages.
The whole agency staff thing is rather hard to grasp unless one gets to the basics on it.
On the NHS issue, (and we need to be specific , I am only talking about the NHS) we need to know why the extra staff need to be recruited, for how long, and where
If a ward needs one nurse for one day then an agency may be a good option, even though the agency may typically take over 15% in commission
If the wing occasionally requires on average, two nurses a day, and then the hospital requires say, 10 per day, but only all for one day, , it would make sense perhaps to have one senior nurse to float but employed by the hospital..
Multiply that by the hospitals in the district on the general requirements and it makes sense to dump the agency who are effectively like the leach that charge so much commission to sell a house..
What do we all not like? Leeches and grinches..
Mismanagement in the system is the main cause of waste I think.
I am aware of the kick backs some get, or may be offered, even just the odd bottle of wine.
Once we sort the mismanagement we can sort the pay to staff.
19% ? I do sort of think they need a good wage seeing as they year on year get stomped on.
!9% may be a little too much, but who knows, pay them or lose them.
@@midjehunt7424 my ward currently has 30% of the nurses it needs to cover shifts. This is fairly common on most wards, just look at nurse vacancies. It's been made worse by the conservatives decision to remove the bursary for nurses in 2015, meaning fewer people can afford to train
@@jennifermarlow. this is basically how it used to run before Tory privateers got their claws in. NHS had an in-house bank of temp nurses who would float between hospitals for a fraction that Tory owned private agencies cost.
This is the sort of interview that should be on the MSM, also the same for a goverment minister and train operator, no chance of that tho!
He's not right, this is children's economics.
NHS is extremely overpaid.
RMT workers are extremely overpaid.
I have yet to encounter a single Mick Lynch supporter able to explain to me why train drivers should make 50 thousand pounds a year to push a button and drive in a straight line (usually late).
As Frankie Boyle said a couple weeks ago,
"This is not a recession it's a robbery" .
@@cujimmi lmao, I thought it was a joke at first but op probably meant it
@@cujimmi anyone could say it and it would still be a true statement. Thieving corporate fifth columnists have launched a war on Britain, the British economy and the British people.
Yes sir, the Great Train Robbery Mk 2.
Avanti were awarded well over £6 million for 6 months in 2021 for performance related bonuses. This is despite the following…
Services offered fell by over 21%
The trains that did run were on time just over 55% of the time.
This money was paid by the government from U.K taxpayers.
Enough is enough
Yes, as Mick Lynch has called out, it is corrupt. And the corrupt don't even try to deny it...🖤
God bless you Mick Lynch you really are a caring person ,,,,
Keep going Mick -such an intelligent brave leader
What kind of vile disgusting traitor does this as the nation and half the world recovers from the pandemic effects and tackles a crisis caused by Putin? Oh how I wish the great Maggie was here to deal with the union sc*m.
More Micks are the order of the day.
Tells the truth and answers questions fully. Clearly has nothing to hide, unlike those who aren't honest and respectable who are trying their hardest to crush workers.
Trade Union leaders and striking workers have encapsulated the vibe and passion amongst millions of us for transformative change
striking workers ? Not a worker if you do not work, you are just a rotting slab of useless flesh .
Hope you have plenty of cash to see you through the strike.
The longer it goes on the more I earn.
Enough is Enough!
right on the ball
No. They're just opportunistic lazy bastards.
@@grahamherbert3612 don't call the government that they will be round to your house
British Person of the Year.
Love from Ireland. Proud Mick has Irish heritage. We could do with him over here quite frankly.
I love u Mick Lynch. Beautiful human being.
Brilliant Mick,you’d put the tory snobs to shame
He voted bojo get brexit done, want me to prove it?
@@DrMontague why are you commenting on nearly every post things that hold 0 point? The tories were voted in on lies. Upon lies. Then even the Tory public didn’t even vote for them. They just changed each other around as they pleased, N now we have a completely different animal. Left or right it doesn’t matter, what matters is we come together and fight for the basic rights to live, is it that hard? Or do you want a extremely large class divide that you seem to be pushing for?
@@DrMontague : So what ?
It’s called having a free mind unlike some
Lynch should be leading a revised Labour Party who are actually supporting Labour (workers).
I sense many labour folk think Labour is not doing enough ;o)
There is no future in the entire system, better to work outside of it as much as possible.
Mick Lynch is my hero! A true working class hero who is so learned and eloquent and truly tells it like it is. And the man has so much patience even with the likes of that 'Dick' Madeley! These strikes represent not just the power struggle between the unions and this current political administration but also the basic fundamental schism between all workers and the powers that be who want to strip them of their hard won rights. The two sides are diametrically opposed and the fact that so many different workers want to and are striking is testament to this fact. I for one could never trust the Tories, their motives are always suspect. Mick Lynch for PM - what a beautiful idea!!
Could not have said that any better 🙏
Absolutely agree!! He is a hero!
@@bsidhu333 Thank you for your vote of confidence, I wish him and every RMT worker every success although it won't be easy with this government!
Power to the people
Mick is a star in the darkness, shining a light upon organised government corruption.
More power to him.
well said mick keep spreading the truth for all to hear ,never surrender to government bullies or corrupt media.
Stand strong and in doing so bring them down ! .
@@happyforever1528 one law for him, on a big salary, as his members family are used, by him, not the bosses. its all a sham.
They still have the power to decide whatever suits them. They're not shame about exposure, it is very clear!
Amen to that ! .
This man is brilliant take care sir
He deserves his salary, which is on par with a politician....he cares about people and society.....one man against many public officials....brave man!
On par with some politicians, most are earning way more taking into account expenses too. He’s the leader labour needs
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Labour is just as corrupt if not more. They're public school types, minor aristocrats who despise working people.
Let's get behind this fella then.
@@dylan120190 and politicians don’t manage unions of over 100k people either. People running corporations of a fraction of that number are earned £200-800k plus bonuses on top. It’s definitely a steal of a wage by RMT and it’s members considering his competency as a union official and advocate for the members.
thank you mick for your insight, intelligence and compassion.
kind regards.
Mike Lynch for PM
We can’t loss this fight or we go on being slaves forever.
The workers enslaved themselves, they have voted their exploiters representatives in for decades. They are now prepared to vote for Tory Starmer!
_I was thinking whilst listening to this...isn't it nice to finally have some civilised conversation, that's hopeful, reaslistic, and open to the challenges? He's absolutely right about the army of people who support the NHS, I can relate this to an aggressive patient we had brought in on the ambulance, a big guy, and having security there to help defuse and protect me and my crewmate, I can't be thankful enough. You're damn right I went and got him a coffee after that._
Such an amazing person, totally for the people ❤
You're a legend!!
The best Labour leader we never had. hang on, it's not too late🤔
Well done Mick 👏🏻 keep fighting them Torie 🐀s
If you give conservatives their way, then they'll keep going lower. They won't stop. The rich will get richer and the rest of us will get poorer.
Mick is a legend. The govts attitude to these negotiations is nothing short of a disgrace. Mick and Eddie Dempsey have frequently been negotiating with rail companies, organising meetings with the express intentions of coming to an amicable agreement, yet the Govt at the last minute then refuse to meet or negotiate. Often times Mick and Eddie are travelling to prearranged meetings when they have received a call from the train company they were meant to be meeting, saying the Govt have ordered them not to negotiate. This is just disgusting juvenile behaviour by a desperate govt with nothing left in the tank. Let's get everyone behind the strikes, stop whining and moaning about the disruption to your daily life because you are just playing to the govts narrative. Look at the amount of different sectors who are joining these strikes on a daily basis. It started with the RMT then the CWU now the nurses closely followed by the ambulance service. The fire brigades union are balloting their members, now border force staff are joining the strikes, the armed forces can't be expected to cover everything. I predict there is going to be a general strike across the country within the next 2-3 months so people need to start making preparations. Look to the govt if you want to apportion blame. The nurses union openly said they would suspend strike action if the govt would just come to the table, the govt outright refused so there you go.
This guys a light in a dark world
Why does the main stream media never talk about those issues the way they are laid out in this video?... Absolute disgrace...
Because it is a pro capitalist media pro the bosses pro the rich
Yes, this is what the BBC should be doing.
Look at their owners and their political donations, then you have your answers. Same with everything, look at what MPs say and who gives them money, it matches up quite scarily.
We are PROUD of you Mick, never doubt yourself.
We will get there mate.
But how ludicrous Mick Lynch voted Tory and I can prove it . He wanted brexit Done and bojo was the man
@@DrMontague you are talking out of your arse.
@@DrMontague why are you commenting on nearly every post things that hold 0 point? They were voted in on lies. Upon lies. Then we didn’t even vote for them. N now we have a completely different animal. Left or right it doesn’t matter, what matters is we come together and fight for the basic rights to live, is it that hard? Or do you want a extremely large class divide that you seem to be pushing for?
@@aronbrewer7466 I was thinking the same thing!
@@DrMontague you keep shitposting the same thing but not once have I seen you actually deliver
welcome to Victorian England! this was the governments Brexit dream
Spot on blaming the Conservative Government, they have never had any empathy with the working person! They saw the EU immigration system as a way of keeping pay down with Maggie's theory of more competition keeping prices down? BUT this went ballistic when that market dried up with companies buy outs and reclaiming our Sovereignty. No coincidence that workers need pay rises, there years of hands off approach (or lack of management) is now passed to the consumer, Mick Lynch and others like him, speak for the working people, who have seen a decline in living standards over the years, yet there is no real innovative opposition since the forties
The masses and workers voted them in!
@@DrMontague why are you commenting on nearly every post things that hold 0 point? They were voted in on lies. Upon lies. Then we didn’t even vote for them. N now we have a completely different animal. Left or right it doesn’t matter, what matters is we come together and fight for the basic rights to live, is it that hard? Or do you want a extremely large class divide that you seem to be pushing for?
@@aronbrewer7466 Where are all the mega rich pop stars and tv celebrities? Are they putting money into a strike fund? Food banks etc. Where are the spice girls and girl power now? They are quite prepared to watch working class mothers suffer, mothers who probably went to see them. Oh I forgot their hero was MARGRET THATCHER!
What a breath of fresh air. An intelligent interview on both sides. Calm, thought provoking and factual. I've been involved in trade unions all my life and have had many a run in with my employer over the years. Never for pay, always to retain conditions that have been hard won over the years. Well done Mick and the rail workers. This battle is worth the fight, lose your employment conditions now, they are lost forever! BBC, Sky News, pay attention and see how to conduct a proper interview. Well done Polly Smythe.
Agree doing such a good job Mick but look after yourself. You’re more intelligent and personally aware than the idiots combined at Westminster. I would vote for you tomorrow.
You know you are right, don’t listen to the media who say the public are weary now. We are not, I use trains regularly to visit family in Scotland and I support you all 100%. The governments are dragging their feet on purpose.
You are fighting for everyone not just RMT members, whatever job you’re in, you’re being asked to do more for less.
Best wishes to you and your family
Definitely need more people like Mick in charge. Great interview!
A brilliant interview, honest, thorough and inspired.
I learned a lot from this. It puts it in sharp focus.
Bravo Mick Lynch. 👋👊✊.
Give this man a political party then watch him rinse both tories and labour
The unions should give him a party.
Nothing to stop him running in an election if he thinks he is smart enough.
It would take more than talking Triang though, not sure he has the balls or brain for it. Besides, he gets paid while the rail staff stand on picket lines in the cold right?
Why should he care?
How much does Mick Lynch have in common with Galloway's Workers' Party?
Small businesses need someone like this gentleman, to represent us also, I been paying FSB for about 5 years to represent us but all they do is send me spam 3 times a day, never seen any results. Good to see someone representing the working people, I hope they succeed with their action, they are long overdue better conditions particularly decent pay.
I guess your small business is suffering with people unable to get on a train then? ;o))
Small businesses don’t matter to this government as you can’t afford to bribe politicians. Unless your a corporation you have no say in this country.
This man is a genius. The thing is he does not realise it.
GWR just blew tens of millions on old roiling stock (769's) that'll never see the light of day yet not a word in the media. Power to the people!
Just read an article in the guardian online, Avanti west coast rail have just received £4m in taxpayer funded bonuses for running the worst services in the whole country, only 60% of trains running to designated time tables, the other 40% were cancelled completely. This govts are criminals, criminally incompetent and criminally negligent as well as criminally insane. Kier Starmer was the chief lawyer, he should be able to bring charges against the govt for bankrupting the country.
I would vote for this man.
Love it!
I'm clapping. well said sir. xx
Thankfully someone with the concerns of the working person. Total star!
Arise Sir Mick. The Knight of the working class.
Thanks for all you do, Mick.
Godspeed Mick!
Keep going Mick, we know you’re right!
Mick you are a complete hero of the working classes please do not give up the fight for a fairer share for all 🙏🏼
He will settle for much less, they always do.
@@DrMontague you legit sound like a planted Tory mp trying to cause havoc. No real point, and no substance.
Sunak is so incredibly rich he has no idea that living on the breadline is an actual thing.
By his own admission he has never known a working class person, he’s probably never come into contact with someone poor in his entire life.
Yeah and you're point is? If hes rich thats because his parents worked hard and used their brains , so why is that his fault maybe if you're parents where rich and worked hard and other people where on the breadline would that be your parents fault? No i don't think it would
@@boohoo8554 The point is he has no idea how poor people live, he asked a homeless person the other day if they worked in business, totally & utterly ignorant. The guy is homeless and has no money or food, what business would he be working in?
Just because you’re rich it doesn’t mean you have to live in a bubble, that’s a choice, and if you choose to then you will never see reality.
How can Sunak run a country if he doesn’t understand reality.
Btw, Most working people work hard.
If you think that the amount of money you earn is relative to how hard you work, you’re wrong.
@@boohoo8554 has simping this hard for billionaires helped you "use your brain" and get rich yet? Judging by mixing up you're and your, no, I don't think it has.
Great stuff mick keep at them good on you
I'd vote Mick to be Prime Minister tomorrow
Yes we need to break the cycle of Conservatives and "New" Labour.
Power to the people stay 💪Mick don’t let them grind you down your doing a fantastic job 🕊🤍
I am starting to think that the reason Rmt didn't get their deal is because it would have embarrassed the government and they would be forced to do a deal with the nurses.
spot on it's become a complete ideological battle, that's the real scary thing about it. the government know how many people are watching closely and theyre gonna try make an example out of them so they can continue pushing us in a further right libertarian direction. fucked up but we all need to support these guys because itll affect us all in the end.
This outstanding response is EXACTLY why the Conservative government fears cameras recording ANY discussion between Sunak and Mick
Only goes to prove that the arseholes in the Government do have something to hide
This man is a straight talking...no BS, friend of the working class.
As long as conservatives exist, this struggle will exist.
As long as a minority own all the assets and thus wealth, this struggle will exist.
Mick Lynch comes across as an articulate , intelligent and dynamic leader unfortunately these qualities are sorely missing in Labour's leadership .
He’d be blocked from ever getting near the labour leadership. British politics is bought and paid for by the minority who own the assets and wealth. The minority workers and their unions are fighting against.
@@jgmediting7770 I agree because all Avenues are blocked for a socialist to be a candidate let alone be the Labour leader , he would've been a better leader .
Here's why they are fine with outsourcing jobs in these fields; the agency gets two or even three times as much from the company as they pay employees. The agency staff filling that position usually only gets a pound or two more than the regular staff but get none of the responsibility. The rest of the money goes to the agency itself, which then donates again to the political party that helps them keep it this way.
Sunaks government just gave their chums in the private owed Avanti train operators group £60 million in bonuses.
This guy should be prime minister , the guy is truthful and has ordinary people in his thoughts , he does not lie unlike our prime minister who can’t even stand up straight he lies that much
*_THIS!_* This is the kind of person _sorely_ missing from the political sphere, _especially_ in the Parliamentary *Labour* Party!
Keep telling the truth Mick, thank you.
This man in No.10
Absolute sense. Join a Trade Union today.
Mick, you're a good man. Stay strong!
Mick wish you could represent care workers that are really on a pittance
Mick, I can see you are getting tired answering the same questions. Difference is, you have the answers, unlike our crappy, mis-informed politicians!
Unions walk a fine line in manufacturing. Not so in public services.
Abstracting away from the topic of conversation, this chap is clearly a very well read highly intelligent individual. A breath of fresh air and agree with him or not he's engaging 👍
100% agree with Mick, always said they know what they are doing. They will wait because nurses will have no choice but to go agency, then when it’s the majority the NHS will be privatised and the contracts will not be honered as they are agency workers.
P.s thank whoever made this man who/what he is.
I applaud you sir, just a breath of fresh air and TRUTHFULNESS. This is what we need more of by the GOVERNMENT, but sadly no person there knows how to tell the Truth, or how to answer the questions put to them.
Mick speaks in a way the ordinary people can relate and understand that the tories are rigging the system against the working class
Well done Mick Lynch he really underlines why I hate this government
Unite The Strikes! 🦺👀
Decent public services is what distinguishes a civilised society
Mick Lynch reminds me so much of Uncle Joe Gormley. Cool, calm and collected at all times. He's a damn sight more intelligent than the media pshycophants.
A great man...we should know we have a wise, ethical being in our country and celebrate him and others like him
The workers and the poorest in society are losing out whilst capitalists are trying to win a cruel game of Monopoly. These are the issues that even "Labour leader" Kier Starmer couldn't articulate.
Starmer is the fiend of the minority who own all the capital. The Labour right is bought and paid for.
What a guy, Brilliant Mick keep going , fuck there private school education, your miles ahead,
_There are places in the UK already where I've witnessed increasing usage of private ambulance services. And it's the same work. You get the same calls, have usually better equipment, and the pay package is far more reasonable, and the overall working conditions are far nicer. It is no wonder the individual wants to move away from Trusts..._