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.
Article posted on 17th May, 2008 - 9.58am
6 Article Comments
The traffic wardens are going to go on strike? Well I will lose sleep, NOT. This means my walk from the car to work will become a lot quicker and cheaper.
If they did their job properly we wouldn’t have the parking ‘free-for-all’ that plagues Cheapside. Get a contractor in and let’s have a no-nonsense service.
The comments denigrate the traffic wardens, it’s not about their working ability, it’s about the fact that yet another sector of states employees have been screwed by management.
Cheapside is looked after by the parish Wardens not parking control officers.
1.We carry an extra 15 lbs plus of kit on us for the full 8 hours. Never to be put down during our time at work.
2.We are manual worker’s. Not a uniformed service and are wages display this fact.
3.We get more grief for our services in and out of hours than most and as a result we have more sick leave than your normal everyday office worker.
4.Everyone who has NOT done the job Say’s we understand. I don’t think so?
5.We deal in black and white? You are either breaking the“Road Traffic Laws of Jersey” or your not.
6.We are shift worker’s and as such deserve to be paid for the hour’s of such.
7.And finely if someone owed you money for work you had done. Would you say OK thats fine FORGET IT? I think not.
I total agree with you Paul and think that a strike could help resolve the issue. How much revenue they would be losing in fines?