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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Graham Hiscott

Railway ticket offices plan is 'a direct attack' on our society as unions blast plans

Union chiefs have branded a threatened mass closure of railway ticket offices “a direct attack on the fibres that bind our society together.”

Mike Lynch, general secretary of rail union the RMT, and Dave Ward, head of the Communication Workers Union, issued a joint attack on proposals announced this week.

Train operators across England have launched a 21-day consultation that could see almost every station ticket office close within three years.

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