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There’s a new spirit of resistance in the air, with strikes breaking out and new campaign organisations springing up. LOUISE RAW talked with workers on the RMT picket line at Watford Junction
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WHEN the police turned up to Watford Junction station’s RMT picket line, they couldn’t help but notice it exceeded the statutory six people. By about 50.
The officers duly ordered that only six official pickets could remain, these six obediently took a few steps away; but everyone else stayed where they were.
What were they playing at, asked the boys and girls in blue? “But we’re just observers, officers!” was the innocent rejoinder.
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