Penrith Environment Agency staff will join thousands of other Environment Agency employees belonging to UNISON and Prospect unions in strike action next week in the growing dispute about pay.
Staff working in river inspection, flood forecasting, coastal risk management and pollution control will stage a 12-hour strike on Wednesday (8 February) starting at 7am.
In addition, for 12 hours either side of the walkout, Environment Agency employees will escalate their ongoing work to rule by withdrawing from incident response rotas, say the unions.
This action short of a strike starts at 7pm on Tuesday, and kicks in again immediately at the end of the strike for another 12 hours, concluding at 7am on Thursday.
During these hours, there’ll be fewer experienced Environment Agency staff to provide cover if an incident occurs, say the unions.
However, where there’s a genuine threat to life or property from something like a major flood, officers will step in as emergency ‘life and limb cover’ has been agreed with Agency managers.
Striking workers will The walkout will be on a picket line at the Environment agency offices known locally as the Pink Palace on junction 40 with the official address for the Penrith offices as Ghyll Mount offices on Gillan Way.
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