HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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Rallying to save the railway
ALISON BANVILLE travelled to London last week to join a wave of public outrage at plans to shut ticket offices across Britain
IN SOLIDARITY: People take part in the RMT protest against the proposed closure of railway station ticket offices outside Downing Street, August 31 2023
Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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A FEW days ago I joined a large crowd gathered outside the Department of Transport in London. There were ornate union banners being held aloft proudly emblazoned with “Manchester RMT,” “Liverpool, Branch No 5 est 1913,” “Wigan RMT” — and, most movingly for me as a girl from the Rhondda mining valley — “South Wales and West Region RMT retired.”
The rest of the crowd held banners declaring “Save Our Ticket Offices!” and as the march set off towards its destination in Downing Street we were heartened by a torrent of toots of support from passing traffic, the loudest and longest coming from the iconic red double-decker buses.
Cyclists went by waving or holding aloft a fist of defiance and the few pedestrians who weren’t bemused tourists gave us affirmations of support, which begs the question: who on Earth is in favour of this scandalous move to rid our stations of their vital ticket offices?
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