TICKET staff are planning the second of three strikes in a dispute over the future of booking kiosks at Coventry train station.
Virgin Trains workers held a protest on Friday against the closure of counter windows and introduction of more automated ticket booths.
Members of the union Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association fear more staffed ticket counters face closure.
But Virgin Trains’ chief executive Tony Collins said the true reasons for the industrial action were about extra payments and insisted they had no plans to cut ticket office jobs and were recruiting to fill vacancies.
But a TSSA spokesman said: “Before we released pictures showing a queue of 100metres at the station, they had closed two of the windows. Since then they have reopened the windows and now we are fighting for staff at other stations who are still under that threat.”
The next strike takes place on Monday January 25, between 5am and 8.30am, before staff walk out on February 5.
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