Thousands of North Tyneside Council workers could be forced to pay to park at work.
GMB Union is urging the local authority to scrap the plans – which could see staff stumping up to park at council offices and leisure centres across the borough.
Meanwhile councillors are set to trouser a £6,000 pay rise if the increase is nodded through at a vote of the full council meeting tomorrow [Thursday].
Stuart Gilhespy, GMB Organiser, said:
“Forcing thousands of council workers – many of them low paid – to park at work is wrongheaded and ill thought out.
“Doing it while councillors trouser a six grand pay rise is completely grotesque and will make people wonder whose side the council is on.
“Everyone knows the council is hard up – but slashing workers' wages while the top brass get more money is not the answer.
“If North Tyneside Council is serious about supporting staff through the cost-of-living crisis, it must drop this proposal and focus on retaining and attracting talent, not driving it away.”
