A leading representative of both Unite the Union and the
Whitley Bay Council has said the redundancy developments within the Department
of Community Culture and Leisure have been very badly handled.
Eric Holmes is the Secretary of the Employees Side of Trade
Union Whitley Council.
He said he was only informed of the Department’s plans to
make staff cut backs at the last minute.
On Monday he was told that there are roughly 10 permanent members of way staff, including chargehands and labourers that had, in his words, been deemed surplus to requirements.
This figure changed yesterday however with Minister David
Cretney saying if an alternative option couldn’t be found then 11 staff would
go in the first phase of the next financial year, with 11 possibly to follow
bringing the total to 22.
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