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We need a New Deal for Workers now
For too long, the balance has been tipped in favour of the employers and against the workers, but we can’t wait about for Labour to redress the situation – we must exert pressure on our politicians immediately, writes RMT general secretary MICK LYNCH

THE cost-of-living crisis and the grotesque inequality of wealth in our society are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to deep disparities of class and power.

Big businesses, the City and the super-rich wield huge economic and political power.

And working people and small businesses who have carved out a stake in society are seeing that diminish through wage suppression and bumper profits for the super-rich.

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