for months, rail workers have been striking over pay and plans my guest is mick lynch, leader of the biggest rail union, the rmt. the stakes in this fight are high. can the workers win? mick lynch, welcome to hardtalk. you are the leader of a union that s been in a long running dispute now. it goes back to last summer. there have been rolling, sporadic strikes. as it goes on, does it feel harder to find your way to a compromise? well, there s no easy way out for either side. the government has boxed themselves into a corner, to a large extent. and i think that s predicated on the idea of setting precedents for public sector. we ve seen the nurses, ambulance drivers, many civil servants in dispute along similar lines. people aren t being paid enough in this society at the moment and many public sector workers have had long term pay cuts measured against any measure of inflation, so there s some catch up to be done, and that makes it harder because the government wants to be
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He also told pakistan by signing the memorandum and following up agreements, the value of trade and economic relations between tehran and islamabad will reach 10 billion dollars per year. In the field of commercial and economic work , we set a target of 10 billion dollars as the first step, which was agreed upon by both countries. The efforts of economic activists in the meeting that i met with. He expressed the expansion of commercial and Economic Cooperation with sri lanka as one of the other achievements of this trip and said that the construction of a hundred large and multipurpose hydropower plants in sri lanka is an example of the office. Irans ability to export Technical Engineering Services is decided to continue our work with sri lanka to follow, one of the very good possibilities that exist in the Islamic Republic today is the export of technical and Engineering Services, which is why we can have a very good cooperation with neighboring countries, countries aligned with Asian
, and the severe crackdown on American Students who support palestine , this time in texas, the Police Arrested at least 20 students. In the name of allah, the most merciful, the most merciful, may god bless muhammad and the family of muhammad and speedy their fate dear fellow countrymen , have a good thursday morning. Inshallah, the president , returning from a regional trip to pakistan, sri lanka , mentioned the strengthening of relations with neighbors as one of the goals of this trip. Mr. Raisi said a trip to pak. At the current stage, sri lanka had this Important Message for the region and the world that iran is a powerful country that can speak to its enemies from a position of authority and continue and strengthen its relationship with friends. Pakistan also said that by signing the memorandum and following up on the agreements, the value of trade relations and economic between tehran, islamabad and 10 billion. Dollars will arrive in the year. In the field of commercial and econ
Political thinking with nick robinson. 0ur movement is fighting, our movement is winning, our movement, brothers and sisters, is back, so said my guest on a new episode of political thinking. A conversation with, rather than a news interrogation of, someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. Paul nowak is the new General Secretary of the tuc and this week, the trade Union Congress meets in his home city of liverpool. And it meets at a time when there are more strikes than there have been for many years and at a time when paul nowak says, working people are fighting back after the longest sustained squeeze on their incomes in two centuries. Paul nowak, welcome to political thinking. Thank you. Now another thing you once said. Oh, dear. I fit every stereotype of a daily mail Trade Unionist. Im a slightly overweight, Balding Scouser who gets a little too aerated. I think it is an accurate description, dont you . Well, we will see, shall we . What gets you aera