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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
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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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