The union planning Britain’s biggest rail strikes for three decades
The RMT is the country’s most potent trade union as well as one of its weirdest
Mick lynch has a distinctive face. Friends of the general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (rmt) call him “The Hood”, after the glabrous villain in “Thunderbirds”. The Daily Mail, a right-wing newspaper, suggests the union leader likes the character’s reputation as the “world’s most dangerous man”. Mr Lynch has a prosaic explanation for the nickname: “[it’s] because I’m bald and I have massive eyebrows”.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Under the hood”
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