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Rail staff’ chief Mick Lynch says face-to-face with Rishi Sunak is barely strategy to finish stoppages

The chief of the largest rail staff union has referred to as for an pressing assembly with the Prime Minister in a bid to assist resolve the long-running dispute over pay, jobs and situations.

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) are resulting from stage two 48-hour strikes subsequent week following months of business motion over the deadlocked row.

In a letter to Rishi Sunak, RMT union chief Mick Lynch stated a gathering between the 2 males was now the easiest way of constructing progress.

Mr Lynch stated that from press reviews, Transport Secretary Mark Harper’s look on the Transport Committee this week and from what he has been straight advised by the Rail Supply Group’s negotiators, it’s clear that No 10 is ‘directing the mandate for the rail firms and has torpedoed the talks’.

Pictured: Mick Lynch at the Postal Workers Strike Rally in Parliament Square

Pictured: Mick Lynch on the Postal Staff Strike Rally in Parliament Sq.

He wrote: ‘There isn’t a purpose why this dispute couldn’t be settled in the identical manner that RMT has resolved disputes in Scotland and Wales.

‘The place the Scottish and Welsh governments have had accountability for mandates, pay settlements for 2022 have been agreed and neither of those settlements have been conditional on reducing staffing, and eroding security, safety and accessibility.

‘It’s already a nationwide scandal that your authorities has been paying the practice working firms to not settle the dispute, indemnifying them to the tune of £300 million in order that they haven’t any incentive to achieve a decision.

He added: ‘It isn’t clear to me why, on prime of this, your authorities has now torpedoed the negotiations, however I now imagine {that a} assembly with your self represents the perfect prospect of any renewed progress.

‘We’ve an obligation to discover each attainable possibility for settling this dispute and I am keen to do my half. I hope you’ll agree to fulfill me.’

A Authorities spokesperson stated: ‘It is extremely disappointing that, regardless of a brand new and improved deal providing job safety and a good pay rise, the RMT continues to carry Christmas hostage with extra damaging strikes.

‘The Authorities has performed its half by facilitating a good and respectable provide and the RMT and its members ought to vote this deal by means of and finish this dangerous disruption.’

In his letter to Rishi Sunak, RMT union leader Mick Lynch said a meeting between the two men was now the best chance of making progress

In his letter to Rishi Sunak, RMT union chief Mick Lynch stated a gathering between the 2 males was now the perfect likelihood of constructing progress

Community Rail has warned passengers that companies will probably be restricted, overcrowded or cancelled till no less than January 8 as RMT union members strike for 11 days over the vacation season.

Conservative MP David Jones stated: ‘The unions ought to contemplate that by going for such hefty pay settlements, they won’t solely stoke inflation but in addition make Christmas depressing at finest, and harmful at worst.’ 

The RMT will shut down the railways in two 48-hour strikes from Tuesday and Friday, destroying the plans of thousands and thousands for the weekend earlier than Christmas and costing excessive streets a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of kilos.

Companies will probably be disrupted every single day for no less than a month, Community Rail warned travellers final evening.

Moreover, an unprecedented time beyond regulation ban for practice working workers, working from December 18 till January 2, will end in hundreds extra cancellations.

As much as 100,000 Royal School of Nursing (RCN) members can even strike on Thursday for the primary time within the union’s 126-year historical past, inflicting appreciable disruption to the NHS.

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) are due to stage two 48-hour strikes next week following months of industrial action over the deadlocked row

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) are resulting from stage two 48-hour strikes subsequent week following months of business motion over the deadlocked row

As many as 15,000 operations may very well be postponed subsequent week as a result of NHS walkouts. And greater than 100,000 outpatient appointments may be affected by the strikes, evaluation by The Day by day Telegraph suggests.

NHS trusts had been instructed to make sure all affected sufferers are notified of the scheduling modifications by Tuesday. Later cancellations ought to solely be made in ‘distinctive circumstances.’

Hospitals had been additionally instructed to reschedule cancelled appointments as quickly as attainable. However the NHS’ lengthy ready lists have left some uncertain that they’ll get new appointments quickly.

An insider advised The Day by day Mail: ‘If there are strikes they’ll have an effect on sufferers. Many aren’t going to get the care and remedy they want. Unions ought to assume once more.’

RCN basic secretary Pat Cullen, whose members are due to participate in unprecedented strike motion on December 15 and December 20, has {accused} Steve Barclay of refusing to barter correctly as a result of she leads a largely feminine workforce.

Mr Barclay has repeatedly been {accused} by the RCN of failing to totally have interaction in discussions with nurses, at the same time as he insists that his ‘door stays open’.

Mr Lynch said that from press reports, Transport Secretary Mark Harper's appearance at the Transport Committee this week and from what he has been directly told by the Rail Delivery Group's negotiators, No 10 is clearly 'directing the mandate for the rail companies and has torpedoed the talks'

Mr Lynch stated that from press reviews, Transport Secretary Mark Harper’s look on the Transport Committee this week and from what he has been straight advised by the Rail Supply Group’s negotiators, No 10 is clearly ‘directing the mandate for the rail firms and has torpedoed the talks’

Ms Cullen, who represents a whole bunch of hundreds of nurses, criticised the Well being Secretary in an interview with The Guardian.

‘I am a lady negotiating for a 90 per cent feminine occupation that’s making an attempt to function with a Authorities that is significantly macho and tends to function with a bullyboy tactic,’ she stated.

‘Maybe that is the rationale why we won’t get transferring ahead. By refusing to barter Steve Barclay is ignoring nurses and ignoring me.

‘I believe there’s a problem right here with us being feminine. I ask myself, would that [refusal to negotiate] be totally different if it was a 90 per cent male occupation and I used to be a male? I really imagine it could be. I believe we might be handled in another way.’

Nurses and different nursing workers will take motion at half of the places in England the place the authorized mandate was reached for strikes, each NHS employer besides one in Wales and all through Northern Eire.

The RCN has stated that regardless of this yr’s pay award of £1,400, skilled nurses are worse off by 20 per cent in actual phrases resulting from successive below-inflation awards since 2010.

The union is asking for a pay rise of 5 per cent increased than RPI inflation.

Postal staff (pictured) are expected to continue striking on Sunday, as well as next week and the two days leading up to Christmas

Postal workers (pictured) are anticipated to proceed placing on Sunday, in addition to subsequent week and the 2 days main as much as Christmas

The Well being Secretary has repeatedly insisted that the issues raised by commerce unions aren’t nearly pay and stated that the Authorities was pushing to enhance situations for staff in different areas.

A Division of Well being spokesperson stated that Mr Barclay has the ‘utmost’ respect for nurses.

However Ms Cullen advised The Guardian that the Authorities is taking ‘feminine work’ with no consideration.

She stated: ‘Nurses confirmed the significance of care throughout the pandemic, the significance of being with a affected person at their actual hour of want, the significance of being there to carry their hand and see them go away this world and say: ‘It is OK, we’ll be right here.’

‘That is all perceived by these folks, by these males, as feminine jobs, feminine work, and that they will deal with us like that.’

She additionally promised that she wouldn’t ‘dig in’ if the Authorities confirmed some motion.

She stated: ‘It appears this Authorities will not negotiate with a nurse. That is unlucky.

‘Every part is on the desk and negotiations will inevitably contain some give and tackle all sides. I will not dig in if they will not dig in.

‘However they should come to the desk with me.’

A Division of Well being spokesperson stated: ‘The Well being and Social Care Secretary has the utmost respect for nurses and is vastly grateful for the dedication of all NHS workers.

‘Ministers have had constructive talks with unions, together with the RCN, on how we are able to make the NHS a greater place to work – and have been clear the door stays open for additional talks.

‘These are extraordinarily difficult occasions, now we have accepted the suggestions of the unbiased NHS Pay Assessment Physique in full and have given over a million NHS staff a pay rise of no less than £1,400 this yr.

‘That is on prime of a 3 per cent pay improve final yr when public sector pay was frozen and wider authorities help with the price of dwelling.’

The RCN has said that despite this year's pay award of £1,400, experienced nurses are worse off by 20 per cent in real terms due to successive below-inflation awards since 2010. The union is calling for a pay rise of 5 per cent above RPI inflation

The RCN has stated that regardless of this yr’s pay award of £1,400, skilled nurses are worse off by 20 per cent in actual phrases resulting from successive below-inflation awards since 2010. The union is asking for a pay rise of 5 per cent above RPI inflation

Industrial motion at Royal Mail that has already triggered points with the Christmas put up will proceed tomorrow and on Wednesday and Thursday.

Postal service bosses warned prospects that that they had simply two days to put up presents second class in time for Christmas Day. And a few Christmas playing cards will reportedly not be delivered till February, it was claimed.

A supply stated: ‘The back-up of the put up is absolutely unhealthy. Royal Mail is specializing in parcels and there may be not a variety of room within the mannequin for letters.’

Dave Ward, of the Communication Staff Union, stated that his members had ‘saved the nation going’ throughout the pandemic and warned that turning Royal Mail right into a parcel courier would destroy it.

Subsequent week’s strikes prolong to staff at Heathrow, some bus firms, Eurostar and Nationwide Highways.

MPs worry the ‘coordinated’ disruption will cease carers from reaching the aged and pressure sufferers to cancel hospital appointments.

However the Prime Minister yesterday refused to make Eleventh-hour concessions, saying: ‘What I am not going to do is ask unusual households up and down the nation to pay an additional £1,000 a yr to fulfill the pay calls for of the union bosses.’

Mr Sunak didn’t rule out extending deliberate ‘robust’ anti-strike legal guidelines to stop walkouts by emergency service staff.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt additionally warned that assembly the pay calls for of placing staff would ‘lock in excessive inflation’.

Union sources have additionally warned that Christmas playing cards ‘will not arrive till February’ due to Royal Mail backlogs, as a whole bunch of postal staff marched with ‘Grinch Lynch’ on the primary day of mass walkouts.

Communication Staff Union (CWU) members gathered exterior Parliament in central London yesterday – joined by Mr Lynch – of their newest try to safe a pay rise that matches the rising value of dwelling.

Pictured: The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, together with Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Steve Barclay, meets the Elective Recovery Taskforce in 10 Downing Street

Pictured: The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, along with Secretary of State for Well being and Social Care Steve Barclay, meets the Elective Restoration Taskforce in 10 Downing Road

Greater than 115,000 Royal Mail staff walked out on Friday as a part of a wave of strike motion which is anticipated to proceed on Sunday, in addition to two days subsequent week and the 2 days earlier than Christmas.

Royal Mail, criticising the CWU for inflicting prospects to ‘endure,’ stated firm leaders are ‘doing every part we are able to to ship Christmas for our prospects and settle this dispute’ however insiders advised the Telegraph that the ‘catastrophic’ affect might see folks ready months for his or her mail.

A supply advised the paper: ‘The backup of the put up is absolutely unhealthy, it is super.

‘Royal Mail is specializing in parcels and there may be not a variety of room within the mannequin for letters.’

He stated some Christmas playing cards will ‘actually’ not arrive till February however Royal Mail stated there isn’t a proof for this and insisted contingency plans are in place to minimise delays.

Parliament Sq. was full of individuals wearing pink yesterday as postal staff from throughout the UK assembled to voice their anger about proposed company modifications that they imagine will flip them into ‘gig’ economic system staff.

CWU basic secretary Dave Ward stated Royal Mail workers, who had been classed as key staff throughout the coronavirus pandemic, are ‘combating for his or her jobs, their livelihood, and the service that they supply to the general public.’

‘What the corporate are asking postal staff to agree is that we sack hundreds of them while on the similar time bringing in self-employed drivers, new recruits … and while retaining company staff,’ Mr Ward argued.

He stated the corporate’s calls for for staff to start out as much as three hours later ‘will destroy the way forward for Royal Mail’.

‘We’re not ready to simply accept that beneath the banner of modernisation.’

Mr Ward additionally defined that the strike motion was aimed toward setting in place job safety for postal workers, who had been classed as key staff throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

‘It is about protecting postal staff, respectable working folks, in work and ensuring that this firm has a profitable future and that it would not simply get become simply one other parcel courier,’ he stated.

Pictured: Mick Lynch speaks to the media outside the Houses of Parliament on December 2, 2022

Pictured: Mick Lynch speaks to the media exterior the Homes of Parliament on December 2, 2022

Picket traces had been mounted exterior Royal Mail places of work throughout the nation.

Strikes are additionally deliberate on Sunday and subsequent Wednesday (December 14) and Thursday (December 15), in addition to December 23 and on Christmas Eve.

A Royal Mail spokesperson stated: ‘We spent three extra days at Acas this week to debate what must occur for the strikes to be lifted.

‘Ultimately, all we obtained was one other request for extra pay, with out the modifications wanted to fund the pay provide.

‘The CWU know full effectively that in a enterprise dropping greater than £1 million a day, we have to agree modifications to the way in which we work in order that we are able to fund the pay provide of as much as 9% now we have already made.

‘Whereas the CWU refuses to simply accept the necessity for change, it is our prospects and our individuals who endure….

‘We’re doing every part we are able to to ship Christmas for our prospects and settle this dispute.’

The union claims Royal Mail imposed a two per cent pay improve on members with out session and is ‘refusing’ to deal with staff with respect, in keeping with Mr Ward.

In the meantime, The New York Occasions this week hailed Mr Lynch as ‘an unlikely nationwide hero’ in Britain.

In an opinion piece revealed by the US newspaper, journalist Rachel Shabi praised RMT union chief. 

The article – titled ‘Britain Is Depressing, however Britons Are Preventing Again’ – stated: ‘Britons are combating again. Months after what was referred to as a sizzling strike summer season, by which nearly 200,000 staff staged walkouts, Britain is witnessing industrial motion on a scale not seen in many years — and in all kinds of unlikely locations.’

It continued: ‘The strikes, normally contentious, have unexpectedly captured the general public temper. Individuals go to picket traces and converse up for staff on tv and radio phone-ins.

‘Mick Lynch, the chief of the transport union that has been on the forefront of strikes, has change into an unlikely nationwide hero. His refusal to simply accept issues as they’re, in addition to his evisceration of hostile interviewers, has struck a chord.’

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