Hackney
Unites is proud to be supporting the Together for Transport initiative
which wants to protect Hackney’s local railway stations from staffing
cuts. There is a public meeting on Monday 12 December, at 6.30pm at the
Old Fire Station, 61 Leswin Road N16 7NX.
There will be speakers from:
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Disability Backup (highlighting the value of station staff to disabled people using rail transport)
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The TSSA (rail workers’ union),
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Jennette Arnold (Labour Party GLA member covering Hackney) and
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Anna Hughes (Green Party candidate for the GLA).
This will be an opportunity to hear about the government’s ‘McNulty
Report’ and its recommendations which if carried through will see the
closure of ticket offices at six of the borough’s railway stations and
reductions at a further three (the government is also planning above
inflation fare increases).
However, this meeting is not intended to be just a ‘talking shop’ we
want to establish rail user groups (similar to the park user groups
already active in the borough) for each railway station in Hackney.
Elsewhere, rail user groups have been active in their communities and
have worked with train operating companies to win improvements to
stations, and have campaigned successfully to maintain staff on their
stations.
This meeting will initially focus on Stoke Newington, Stamford Hill and
Rectory Road, and we have invited speakers from the company Abellio
which will be operating the train services through these stations from
next year, (but if you use any station in Hackney and want to get
involved, please come along).
Bring your friends and bring your ideas about how we can create a voice for passengers in the borough.
The meeting is supported by the N16 Magazine: http://www.n16mag.com/news/latest-news/974.html
Help us promote this meeting by forwarding this email onto friends,
neighbours and colleagues who you use Hackney’s rail stations, by
forwarding this email on, by sharing it on social networking sites, and
by promoting our facebook event
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=552496836&ref=notif¬if_t=friend_confirmed#!/events/248155985240504/
If you have any time over the next week, and can help by leafleting
outside one of the stations, then please email woodsg@tssa.org.uk
Please consider forwarding this email to
Hackney people who may be interested. Hackney Unites is a coaltion for
social justice, if you are not already on our mailing list, you can sign
up on-line (http://eepurl.com/bPJDH) to receive regular updates.
Many thanks
John Page
Secretary
Hackney Unites
