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The RMT’s Mick Cash and Tesco’s Dave Lewis win my prizes for media manipulation

Plus: The case for Jon Moulton, and the trouble with milk

17 January 2015

9:00 AM

17 January 2015

9:00 AM

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.

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