Mick Lynch
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Mick Lynch is a prominent trade union leader known for his passionate defense of workers' rights and his commitment to addressing economic disparities. This interview reveals his ability to galvanize support and challenge the status quo, positioning him as a key figure in the current labor movement.
“Particularly. So I left score in 1978 and I started in a place where there were six apprentices, eight apprentices and six of them came from my school. My school was about two miles away from that factory. And we all did craft apprenticeships. And we all were looking forward to a life as craftsmen as we were then.”
“Don't have any problem in that. We've got to rebuild it in a modern way because life is different. People don't socialize that way. You know, the caricature of the miners lodge or the working men's club. They're struggling. People communicating in a different way. They don't all want to go to boring branch meetings.”
“Than bitter, which in my culture is around this idea of the crack. The crack involves more than just telling jokes. It's about the atmosphere in a community and in a society.”
“On the railways, the president of our union is a train driver right now So, one of the reasons for that is because everybody else has lost. So we have never lost our ability to bargain going back from BR for privatisation. We have not lost our final salary pension scheme and we've not lost our terms and conditions.”
Political Thinking with Nick Robinson — The Mick Lynch One
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