Fewer than 20 out of 1,500 visitors officers and motorway CCTV employees went on strike yesterday, making a mockery of union barons’ makes an attempt to trigger chaos.
Mark Serwotka, head of the PCS union, ordered the walkout and warned Nationwide Highways that as much as 125 of his members may participate.
However it’s understood solely between 15 and 20 visitors officers and management room employees joined the motion.
That is lower than 2 per cent of the 1,500 or so whole Nationwide Highways workforce of visitors officers and motorway CCTV employees.
PCS Union picket line in Workington, Cumbria, on Tuesday as they carried out industrial motion for extra pay
January strikes specified by full throughout the calendar pages this month from varied unions
In some areas, such because the South East, no employees went on strike.
The North West was the worst affected, however a handful of employees primarily based within the South West have been redeployed.
A Nationwide Highways supply stated it meant the strike, which lasts 48 hours and ends tomorrow, had ‘zero influence’ on motorists.
This week Mr Serwotka warned: ‘This strike is more likely to trigger issues for folks returning to work after the Christmas break, and whereas we remorse that, it is essential to recollect our motion may very well be referred to as off at present if Rishi Sunak put some cash on the desk for our members.’
It comes after the union did not trigger chaos at airports after it ordered Border Drive employees to strike for eight days over the festive interval.
Lots of of Military personnel stepped in to exchange them and have been praised for dashing up ready instances for arriving passengers.
The PCS has additionally ordered walkouts of driving instructors and Rural Funds Company employees.
