Tomorrow's rail strikes are 'absolutely' a class struggle and a 'pushback against a broken economy', RMT Assistant General Secretary Eddie Dempsey tells LBC. TomSwarbrick1
"It absolutely is." Mr Dempsey declared, adding "there has been a huge transfer of wealth from one class – the working class."Tom picked apart the argument, citing the IFS' report that middle earners will be "slightly worse off, if at all" in the cost of living crisis. "Is that part of a class war?"
"Do you think a person earning the median wage in this country can afford to buy a house?" Mr Dempsey countered. Tom clapped back, asking if the RMT are "going out on strike because the gap between pay and house prices has been decoupled". Mr Dempsey reiterated the point that rail workers' " pay has been frozen for three years now", and "if we don't keep people up with the rising. cost of living people will become poorer."
"If you listen to the rhetoric coming from Grant Shapps and the government...you will see the government is determined to pour petrol on the fire and have this dispute so they can have a straw man in the unions to attack."
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