TSSA News Release

Nearly one in six of the workforce will lose their jobs with My Travel’s Rochdale HQ closing with the loss of 1,000 jobs. The rest of the jobs will go with the closure of High Street travel shops across the UK and in Ireland.

Calling for urgent talks with the company, union general secretary Gerry Doherty said:

“This is much worse than we feared. This is terrible news for Rochdale and the North West and will also be bad news for consumers across the UK for it will mean less choice in the High Street when it comes to holiday bookings.

“We warned when the German owned Thomas Cook announced this merger in February that it would be the British workforce that would pay the price because of our weaker labour laws. This has now come to pass. We will do all that we can to minimise job losses.

“We now really have only two big players in the High Street with the recent spate of mergers, Thomson’s and Thomas Cook, and that cannot be good for prices or consumer choice.”