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So much more is at stake in the rail workers’ dispute than the livelihoods of the RMT's 80,000 members — we may well be witnessing the struggle that will end not only this government, but the austerity era itself, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
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AS THE late, great Bob Crow said: “If you fight you won’t always win. But if you don’t fight you will always lose.” Now, as current RMT general secretary Mick Lynch points out, his members accepted a wage freeze three years ago and two years ago but when they were offered zero again this year, plus far worse terms and conditions they decided enough was enough.
This sums up the experience of most workers not just over three years but ever since austerity was introduced by the Tory-led coalition in 2010. People’s budgets and their patience has been stretched to breaking point. Many just refuse to shoulder the financial burden of a crisis they did not create.
The same is true for millions of workers in the public sector including NHS workers and teachers but is also true of other transport workers and millions in the private sector. They simply cannot tolerate further attacks on their living standards.
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