THE Government has barred train companies from settling the rail dispute, according to RMT general secretary Mick Lynch.
He told GB News: “Our members are completely committed to the dispute, and that will be seen on the picket lines, as are the postal workers today in Brighton and across the country because workers are being attacked. There’s no sign of a settlement.
“Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the new secretary of state, has not even met with the train operating companies and they have told me directly they’ve got no mandate to make us an offer.
“I met with them last week, and I speak to them all the time. They are unable to make an offer because the Conservative Government will not allow them to make an offer.”
Speaking during an interview on Breakfast with Isabel Webster and Paul Hawkins, he said: “They want to keep this going…we’ve got a Government that we knew were libertarians and now they seem to be implementing chaos theory, they cannot run the country, they cannot run the railway.
“The country seems to be in crisis and they’ve got to do something about that. We need a resolution to these industrial disputes that we’ve got now, which are basically around workers being attacked and members are being attacked, thousands are going to be made redundant if we don’t get an agreement,
“We haven’t had a pay deal for three years and our conditions are going to be chopped up. That’s exactly the same issue in the Royal Mail as it is on the railway.
“We need a change at the top of this country and we need a change from corporate Britain where workers get a square deal.”
He added: “Britain is not being held to ransom, they’ve been held captive by a government that’s in crisis, who’ve got no solutions to what’s going on in this country.
“Corporate Britain is making handsome profits, the rail operators, the train operating companies, network, rail subcontractors, and the rolling stock leasing companies are all making profits while workers are suffering.
“Workers in this country are supporting the trade unions and there is a mood for change. We’re seeing it the way that we’re being supported the way that the postal workers are being supported.
“We know that the education workers, the teachers, health care workers, and people right across our economy, are going t into this view and we believe that the working people of this country support those of us that have to take industrial action.
“We know that they support change. We know that change is coming and the quicker it comes, the better. That’ll be better for every person in Britain, because we may get a fairer society and people may get that square deal that we’re all looking for.”
