TWENTY-four posts are to be axed at the Public Services Department and the manual workers’ union believes that more cuts in other departments will be announced next week.
Fourteen posts will go in the Parks and Gardens section, with a further ten in cleaning services.
But Transport Union official Nick Corbel is convinced that the States side will reveal further post reductions in other departments early next week.
It has emerged that £730,000 a year is lost by Parks and Gardens carrying out contract work for other States departments - a situation new Environment and Public Services president Senator Philip Ozouf says ‘cannot be tolerated’.Mr Corbel said that his members throughout the public sector are ‘terrified’ by the proposed cuts and ‘do not trust what the employer is saying’.
And he said following a meeting with the States side today that the employer was withholding an announcement of further cuts in posts ‘to minimise the impact prior to a mass-meeting of the union next Tuesday’.
Article posted on 23rd March, 2004 - 12.00am
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