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Mick Lynch calls on Labour Party to tackle outsourcing contracts

The general secretary of the RMT has said companies are ‘degrading’ workers by using outsourcing contracts and called on Labour to tackle them.

Alan Jones
Monday 09 October 2023 12:08 EDT
Mick Lynch said people on low-paid outsourced contracts included black and migrant workers (Jonathan Brady/PA)
Mick Lynch said people on low-paid outsourced contracts included black and migrant workers (Jonathan Brady/PA) (PA Archive)

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Companies exploiting workers through outsourcing contracts are among the visitors to the Labour Party’s annual conference, a union leader has claimed.

Mick Lynch, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), called on an incoming Labour government to tackle outsourcing, which he said “degraded” workers.

He told a fringe meeting at the Liverpool conference that workers employed on contracts which had been outsourced to private firms were on the lowest wages in the country.

They included black workers and migrants working in jobs such as cleaners, he said.

“They are being exploited by people who are in this conference this week.

“They have to be called out.”

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