Head of the RMT rail union Mick Lynch was joined on the picket line by his union-supporting son James who has persistently been vocal about backing the crippling strikes.
James Lynch, 23, was seen demonstrating along with his father and a small group of others at Euston station in north London at present.
He makes use of Twitter as a platform to defend the rail strikes which many Brits across the nation blamed for disrupting their Christmas plans, for hitting again at anybody criticising his father and the rail walkouts, and for making an attempt to set the file straight relating to Mick’s wage on strike days.
In June final yr, James even posted a photograph of Scott from Thunderbirds on Fb in solidarity along with his father who posted as his profile image {a photograph} of The Hood, the legal mastermind within the traditional Sixties puppet TV sequence.
Followers of Thunderbirds will probably be conscious that The Hood is feared because the world’s most harmful man, whose most important intention is the acquisition of wealth, ‘no matter justice and ethics’.
Mick Lynch being given a scorching drink by his son James on the picket line at present
Mick Lynch (second from the best) along with his son James (second from the left) at Euston station at present
James Lynch was seen demonstrating along with his father and a small group of others at Euston station in north London at present
James, who in line with his Fb attended Drayton Manor Excessive College in Hanwell, west London, relentlessly defends the choice of rail staff strolling out – claiming they’re ‘struggling by the hands of the Authorities.’
‘Us rail staff are extraordinary staff and we’re struggling by the hands of this Authorities who’re forcing employers to tear up our contracts and impose new working practices, lesser phrases and circumstances and a few instances redundancy on all of us rail staff. We have to do one thing,’ he tweeted on December 7.
In a tweet every week later, James stated: ‘Simply think about if all of the £500m income made by rail corporations final yr was invested again into our economic system and rail trade as a substitute of paid out as shareholder dividends and into offshore financial institution accounts in a great deal of different international locations throughout Europe…’
He additionally tries to set the file straight relating to Mick’s wage on strike days, after repeated questions from members of the general public.
‘All his wages are donated to the Union’s strike fund day-after-day that there’s a strike,’ James says.
Like father like son – James Lynch, like his father, helps the rail strikes regardless of criticism
James Lynch makes use of Twitter as a platform to specific his views over rail strikes – and different trade strikes
James hit out at tweets – together with one from Piers Morgan – earlier than Christmas suggesting that rail strikes have been stopping folks getting house to their households for the festive interval.
Replying to at least one tweet from a journalist, James stated: ‘Which means subsequently that the one disrupted hours on account of industrial motion are 6pm-midnight on Christmas Eve and midnight-6am on twenty seventh December. The general public have subsequently obtained from December 18th till Christmas Eve to journey to their household houses…
‘…and have from twenty seventh December till New Yr to return.’
James has additionally proven his help for nurses hanging – saying it’s for his or her sakes and the sake of the NHS.
In a tweet on December 15, he stated: ‘Unimaginable turn-out for the picket on the Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea.
‘Solidarity with all nurses who at present are on strike within the battle for moral phrases and circumstances and an honest pay rise – each for his or her sakes and the sake of the NHS’s long run future.’
Again in July, the RMT member informed the Employees Revolutionary Occasion’s ‘Information Line’ : ‘We’re right here at present to battle for our futures.
‘We aren’t being valued as staff. That is after we are contributing to supply a service to the nation.
‘Jobs are underneath menace whereas staff are struggling the worst value of residing disaster in fashionable instances. We’ve got to alter that and battle for our future.
‘I am for co-ordinated strike motion to carry down the Tories.’
RMT boss Mick has claimed he desires a deal to finish the long-running dispute over pay and circumstances – regardless of inflicting extra distress on passengers and companies with a recent wave of strikes which started yesterday.
He insisted he doesn’t need disruption on the railways, forward of two 48-hour walkouts by his members that can imply just one in 5 trains run.
Mr Lynch blamed ministers for blocking a doable settlement between employers and his commerce union, which has turned down a pay rise provide of 9 per cent over two years from Community Rail that additionally features a assure of no obligatory redundancies for 2 years.
Requested yesterday by the BBC if there was nonetheless the opportunity of a deal, the RMT normal secretary replied: ‘I hope we will all work in the direction of a deal however we’ve not heard from anybody formally since mid-December.’
He claimed the Authorities ‘merely won’t have a mandate to the employers’ to resolve the dispute, including: ‘They’ve put a block on the deal and so they’re an impediment moderately than a facilitator which is unlucky.’
