1000’s of Atmosphere Company staff in England are to take industrial motion within the coming weeks, together with stopping attending incidents equivalent to floods, water air pollution, spills, waste fires and fly-tipping.
Members of the Unison union might be working to rule from Monday on totally different days as much as and over Christmas in a dispute over pay.
This implies they may solely work their contracted hours, taking all scheduled breaks and relaxation in full between shifts, and won’t settle for any unpaid work.
Workers can even refuse to volunteer for ‘on name’ cowl. Unison mentioned excessive emptiness ranges are piling additional stress on workers.
Members of the Unison union might be working to rule from Monday on totally different days as much as and over Christmas in a dispute over pay
Wages have lengthy fallen behind rising prices and this 12 months staff had been provided a 2 per cent rise plus a £345 cost, mentioned the union.
The place there’s a menace to life from incidents equivalent to a significant flood, officers will step in as emergency ‘life and limb cowl’.
Unison’s head of setting Donna Rowe-Merriman mentioned: ‘[Staff] really feel continuously taken with no consideration by a Authorities that has persistently didn’t spend money on the Atmosphere Company.’
