{"id":18731,"date":"2022-12-07T07:13:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T07:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/12\/07\/christmas-strikes-rmt-chief-mick-lynch-says-union-forced-into-action\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T07:13:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T07:13:21","slug":"christmas-strikes-rmt-chief-mick-lynch-says-union-forced-into-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=18731","title":{"rendered":"Christmas strikes: RMT chief Mick Lynch says union forced into action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) does not want strikes to go ahead in the Christmas period, but members are being forced into action, the union&#8217;s general secretary has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Speaking to the Today programme, Mick Lynch also accused the government of not allowing train companies to make offers to workers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Workers at the UK&#8217;s biggest rail union will walk out from 6pm on 24 December until 27 December as the row over pay and conditions escalates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">This is in addition to several strike dates already announced for December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-63867226\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">December train strikes: Extra walkouts planned over Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-63874489?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) does not want strikes to go ahead in the Christmas period, but members are being forced into action, the union&#8217;s general secretary &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}