Site visitors wardens have vowed to strike on the day of the King’s coronation.
GMB, the union for parking wardens, has introduced civil enforcement officers working in Westminster have voted to walk-out on Might 6.
Alex Etches, GMB Organiser stated: ‘This can be a nice instance of a easy fact on this planet that’s not often acknowledged: that behind every nice historic occasion are a whole lot of strange employees working behind the scenes.
‘Working individuals like our members may appear to do unimportant jobs, however they’re the engines of historical past.
‘This dispute is solely about working individuals being paid an honest wage for the bodily demanding and essential job that they do.’
GMB members employed by the council’s contractor NSL and are in dispute overpay and dealing circumstances.
Union members will now strike on 2, 4 and 6 Might, the latter of which is the day of the coronation procession and ceremony.
Mr Etches added: ‘If NSL fail to make a smart provide in time, we’ll see simply what an vital job our members do because the King makes his means from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Cathedral on Saturday 6 Might.
‘This can be a firm which has grown enormously wealthy off the general public purse [1], all of the whereas leaving our members doing a troublesome and harmful job for lower than they deserve.’
Westminster Metropolis Council has been contacted by Metro.co.uk for remark.
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