TRAFFIC wardens are threatening to go on strike.
It would probably be the most popular walk-out ever if the 12 parking control officers who work for the Transport and Technical Services department packed away their notebooks. The men and women are angry after discovering that for the last 12 years, as shift workers, they have not been paid for daily 30-minute meal breaks when they should have been.
The members of the T & G Unite union are responsible for issuing tickets to vehicles parked illegally on streets and in public car parks. They are preparing to ballot on a strike and it is expected that they will all vote to take action.
The union says that the employer agreed to rectify the situation at a cost of about £200,000 but is now ‘dragging its feet’.
Transport and Techical Services say they recognise that there is a problem and are dealing with it through the normal channels.
