A World to Win: Rail Strike! w/ Eddie Dempsey
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🗓️ 3 July 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This week, Grace speaks to Eddie Dempsey, Senior Assistant General Secretary of the RMT, about the strike action being taken by the rail union up and down the UK. They discuss the background to the strikes, how the government constructed a railway network that funnels money away from workers towards executives, and the union’s "militant, rank-and-file culture of democracy."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of A World to Win. This week I speak to Eddie |
| 0:17.8 | Dempsey of the RMT about the current strike action being taken by members of the R&T up |
| 0:24.5 | and down the country, including the background to the strikes and how the government has effectively |
| 0:31.2 | constructed a railway network that exists to take money out of the pockets of workers |
| 0:37.2 | and funnel it out to shareholders and executives. Thank you so much as always to all of our |
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| 1:54.8 | I am here with the RMT's Eddie Dempsey. Eddie, how are you doing today? I'm not too bad, Grace. |
| 2:00.8 | Good. So we're going to be talking today about the strikes that have dominated the news media |
| 2:07.5 | over the last week or so more than that. And I guess let's start by just talking about what the |
| 2:13.2 | background is to the strike. What were you being offered in terms of wage increases and were there |
| 2:19.0 | any other issues that led you to take this action? So the background to this dispute is |
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