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Meeting Mick Lynch: the RMT’s new leader on why unity is strength
Unity is far more than a slogan – it is an absolute necessity for the battles ahead, newly elected RMT general secretary MICK LYNCH tells Morning Star industrial reporter Derek Kotz

MICK LYNCH is no stranger to the sharp end of the class struggle.

The newly elected RMT general secretary was effectively starved out of the construction industry in the 1990s, a victim of the blacklisting that robbed so many decent trade unionists of their right to earn a living.

He is also a veteran of battles against the kind of right-wing gangster trade unionism that saw his former union – the notorious EETPU – kicked out of the TUC for sweetheart-dealing with some of the very bosses who were doing the blacklisting.

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