DISABILITY activists offered a “profound thank you” to rail union RMT yesterday over its fight to keep guards on trains.
Doug Paulley, of Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), told the union’s AGM that the destaffing of Britain’s railways was having a “disproportionate effect on disabled people.”
His campaign group has regularly campaigned alongside striking rail workers as they protest against the imposition of driver-only trains.
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