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coming up, after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. across the world, workers are finding their living standards squeezed by rising inflation. for some, it's not so much a squeeze as decapitation. technological change is driving job cuts in a host of industries. do workers have the means to fight back? well, the uk rail industry is something of a test case. for months, rail workers have been striking over pay and plans to change working conditions. my guest is mick lynch, leader of the biggest rail union, the rmt. the stakes in this fight are high. can the workers win...

for use in a contraceptive pill for men. they say it works by temporarily stopping sperm from propelling itself. now on bbc news, it's hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. across the world, workers are finding their living standards squeezed by rising inflation. for some, it's not so much a squeeze as decapitation. technological change is driving job cuts in a host of industries. do workers have the means to fight back? well, the uk rail industry is something of a test case. for months, rail workers have been striking over pay and plans to change wor...

Of london, yourfamily were working—class and proud of it, and you were a union activist who suffered for your activities — you were actually blacklisted at one point and got compensation for it. so, you've been a fighter throughout your life. do you think this is why you are so ready to fight today? well, working—class people have always had to fight. 0ur welfare state and our nhs unemployment benefit, sickness benefit, were not given to us as gifts by the rich, by the ruling class, if you want to put it that way. we had to fight for them, from the time of the chartists. we had to fight ...

Condition, which is why many people are notjust poor, many of them are actually going into destitution. we don't want our members to go that way, and we want to bring all those other people into union organised jobs with collective agreements that covers vast sections of the economy. i understand you don't want to go back to the victorian era, but i'm interested in another era which you do appear to have a good deal of nostalgia for — that's the 1970s, because in other interviews... well, the music was better. sorry? the music was better. surely you might agree. well, was union power, as we ...

Throughout your life. do you think this is why you are so ready to fight today? well, working—class people have always had to fight. 0ur welfare state and our nhs unemployment benefit, sickness benefit, were not given to us as gifts by the rich, by the ruling class, if you want to put it that way. we had to fight for them, from the time of the chartists. we had to fight for universal suffrage, we had to fight to get mps paid in the house of commons so working—class people could go there. everything that we've gained — whether it's a collective agreement in a company or the nature of the ...