Support Our Guards

Train guards are safety-critical staff, vital to ensuring passengers have a safe, secure and accessible railway.

• We help passengers in the event of an emergency such as a derailment, evacuation or fire.

• We help provide security and assurance, especially for vulnerable passengers.

• We help many older and disabled passengers on and off trains and during their journey.

• We help provide expert travel advice to improve your journey.

The Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling wants to end the help they provide. He has told train companies to remove guards and introduce driver-only operation (DOO).

RMT members are fighting these plans and have taken many days strike action and are suffering financial hardship.

They need your practical and political help if they are going to win.

The disputes are currently on Northern Rail, South Western Railway, GTR Southern and Merseyrail but if the government win these disputes they will want to introduce DOO throughout the rail network. So RMT needs your help even if you are not in an area directly affected by the disputes.

• Please donate to one of the RMT dispute funds for either Northern Rail, South Western Railway, or contribute to the national dispute fund. Please contact RMT at info@rmt.org.uk or call freephone 0800 376 3706 for details of how to make a donation.

• Please contact RMT to invite a speaker to your branch or region or community group.

• Sign the petition; http://bit.ly/2S72mMP

• Share our film unguarded at https://vimeo.com/248116565