Mixed results for the Brits at the Golden Globes, but I’m pleased to announce that my Golden Monkey Wrench for media manipulation goes to Mick Cash and his team at the Rail Maritime & Transport union, for securing wall-to-wall sympathetic coverage of the collapse of courier firm City Link — some 2,300 of whose workers learned on Christmas day that their jobs were doomed. It would be fair to say Mick had not made much impact as general secretary of RMT (give or take some pointless Tube strikes) since the death of his mighty predecessor Bob Crow last March, but he certainly grabbed the City Link story by the throat — and has been busy this week urging MPs to investigate ‘the whole murky business’.
Not without justification: even if it was inevitable some players would fail in the cut-price gladiatorial arena that the parcel delivery sector has become, City Link’s Christmas announcement was cruel.
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