Trade unionist Mick Lynch to be honoured with Spirit of Mother Jones Award in Cork

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Lynch, who has family ties to Cork, honoured for work campaigning to protect pay and conditions of workers in privatised British rail companies

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Mr Nolan said Mr Lynch’s ability to ground his arguments in solid facts and eloquently express his points in the face of Tory Party opposition to investment in public services, including the National Health Service had earned him the admiration of many as they recognise the validity of his position. “Mick and the RMT have been to the forefront of the defence of workers’ pay and conditions in the UK privatised rail sector and have also organised opposition to the closure of tickets offices at railway stations, justifiably arguing that this discriminates against older, weaker and non tech savvy people.”

Mr Lynch, who lists Irish revolutionary socialist, James Connolly among his heroes, is a regular visitor to Cork and frequently attends Cork City FC games at Turners Cross and famously once remarked: “I’d support Cork in anything, even in tiddlywinks, if they had a team.”

 

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