Ticket Office Closures

It’s official – Train operators have announced plans to close up to 1,000 ticket offices. We have only 21 days to take part in the public consultation. Can you take two minutes to respond to your train company’s consultation and object to the closure of ticket offices? The RMT has prepared template letters for each train operator.🚆 Please have your say 👉 https://www.rmt.org.uk/campaigns/rail/save-ticket-offices/

RMT: Ticket Office Closure Demos

Between 7am and 9am on Friday 21 July, there will be a demo taking place at Putney Station.

Between 5 and 6pm there will be a similar demo taking place at Brentford Station.

If you can help at either of these locations, it will be much appreciated

It’s not just about jobs, it’s going to seriously affect the travelling public if these ticket office closures go ahead, particularly disabled and other vulnerable travellers.

Action!

Monday 13th March 

– BMA Junior doctors begin their 3 day strike. There will be pickets at all major hospitals including North Middx and the Whittington from 7am-10am, and from 7.45pm-9pm

– Unite activists demonstrating at the three key government departments which control debt advice funding.

• 11.00 – 11.45 – Demo at Department for Work & Pensions (DWP), Caxton House, Tothill Street, SW1H 9NA (nearest tube St James Park)

• 11.45 – 12.30 – Demo at HM Treasury, 1 Horse Guards Road, SW1A 2HQ (nearest tube Westminster)

• 13.15 – 14.00 – Demo at Money & Pensions Service (MaPS), 120 Holborn, EC1N 2TD (nearest tube Chancery Lane)

– Islington and Haringey Stand Up to Racism Public Meeting 6pm, Finsbury Park Mosque, 7 St Thomas’s Rd, N4 2QH (see below). As well as speakers advertised, Danny Denny, General Secretary of the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration will be talking about reparations for slavery. With the government ramping up racism towards refugees, the far right attacking hostels, and the suspension of Gary Lineker for speaking out about this, the meeting is both timely and important.

Wednesday 15th March 

Educators, civil servants, doctors, university lecturers and rail workers strikes and the National Budget Day demonstration

There will be a national teacher’s strike organised by the NEU, in addition there will be national strikes by civil servants (PCS), doctors (BMA), University Lecturers (UCU) plus tube workers (RMT & ASLEF) in London. 

There will be a picket line at Seven Sisters Tube depot in Westerfield Rd (near the overground entrance) from 5am until 3pm. There will also be picket lines at some Haringey schools (details to follows) but the main focus here has been on getting people to the demonstration.

A National Demonstration is planned to go from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square, assembling at 12pm on Park Lane. This is likely to be the largest weekday demonstration in a generation. Please share and come if you can. The main meeting place for people to go down to the demonstration from Haringey is Finsbury Park Station(by M&S) at 10.30am,  with some people also meeting up at Seven Sisters (Overground entrance) and Alexandra Palace Station also at 10.30am.

Thursday 16th March

 – Second day of the National NEU strike. All schools in Haringey will be affected, with many having picket lines (more details to follow). 

 – National rail strikes on the 16th and 18th March – picket lines at Kings Cross and Euston (more details to follow)

Saturday 18th March

National Resist Racism Demonstration organised by the TUC and Stand Up to Racism, from the BBC HQ in Portland Place to Parliament Square.. People from Haringey will be meeting up at Finsbury Park Tube (by M&S) and Turnpike Lane Tube at 11am to go down there.