INTRODUCTION OF CHARGING FOR STAFF PARKING
UNISON is totally opposed to this proposal ( and believes the report contains several contridictions) and Ade Turner Branch Sec has written to Councillors to express our concerns;
" Clearly our members are telling us that they either can't pay or won't pay a charge for car park passes which is tantamount to the workforce subsidising the City Council in order for them to use their own vehicles to carry out duties
on behalf of the council.
I would remind you that council workers are already suffering the hardship of a 3 year pay freeze and are facing a potential 3% increase in pensions contributions from next year at the same time as record high petrol prices.
The goodwill of council workers is already being tested to the limit with the amounts of unpaid overtime worked by many (if not all) car park pass users.
If journeys are done by public transport or by foot productivity will fall drastically, impacting on service delivery and costing the council more than will be saved from the introduction of charging .
Please vote against this proposal"
Should this proposal be agreed, we clearly will need a strategy to oppose it and this wll need to be based on the views of our members.
For sometime we have been requested a list of staff affected . This has finally arrived and we are now in the process of checking which are members , whom we will then contact. In the meantime if you want to discuss the issue phone or email us.
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