10^th July 2023 

Support the campaign to save our ticket offices

I’m writing to ask for your support for RMT members and for a vital element of our public services.

As you will have seen, the Train Operating Companies and the Government have now formally revealed their plans to close almost 1,000 ticket offices.

These plans are sold as ‘modernisation’, but this is simply a smokescreen. in reality this is about further de-staffing our stations.

Section 188 notices served by several companies have put more than 2,300 jobs at risk among our station grades. Ticket office regulations are the only restraint on train operating companies simply removing all staff. Once the ticket office closures take place, the companies will be free to do what they want.

Closing ticket offices will be catastrophic for passengers in general, but particularly for disabled people, the elderly, people with learning difficulties, non-English speakers, and many more people who rely on being able to speak to someone at a station in order to be able to get around.

We’re asking for the movement’s support.

Public consultations have opened for each train company and they will close on 26^th July. It’s imperative that we get the biggest possible public opposition registered to these plans.

Your members can respond to the public consultations online via our website here: https://www.rmt.org.uk/campaigns/rail/save-ticket-offices/

Please consider putting a link to this campaign in your membership communications and encouraging your members to respond before 26^th July.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Yours sincerely,

Michael Lynch

RMT General Secretary

Posted: 11^th July 2023

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