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RMT to take to streets in national protest against strikes bill
‘We will fight this in the courts, the media and the workplace’, union leader Mick Lynch says
Members of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) and the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) on the picket line outside London Euston train station, July 27, 2022

RAIL union RMT will take to the streets in a national demonstration against the Minimum Service Bill and to appeal for support from other unions, the Morning Star can reveal. 

Dozens of delegates at the union’s AGM in Bournemouth declared their total opposition to the “conscription of labour” today and vowed to take all action possible against this “dystopian” legislation. 

To rapturous applause, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: “We need a national mobilisation of the entire organised working class.

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