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RMT in ‘good shape’ to meet the ‘significant challenges’ ahead, union leader Mick Lynch says
Mick Lynch, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), joins union members on the picket line outside Euston station in London during a rail strike in a long-running dispute over jobs and pensions

THE RMT is in “good shape” to meet “significant challenges” ahead, general secretary Mick Lynch told the union’s AGM in Bournemouth yesterday.

In his annual address, Mr Lynch argued that that the union needs the “right strategies and systems so we deliver an effective political and industrial punch when required.”

He said: “The RMT is sound, robust and in good shape to meet the challenges ahead.

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