Bridgetown.
The National Union of Public Workers is contemplating industrial action at the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA).
According to the union, SSA workers are growing restless because their concerns are being ignored by the board of directors of the statutory corporation, noting that these include pressure on them to collect garbage daily, which cannot be done because of a critical shortage of trucks.
The workers are also upset over the time it is taken to appoint many of to their post including including Stanton Alleyne who has been acting general manager of the SSA for the past nine years.
Another contentious issue, is the failure of the broad to award a worker his pension and retrroactive pay which are outstanding.
The union says the workers have been very patient with these matters, which have been outstanding for several years and warned it won't be sitting idly by watching the erosion of workers' rights and a breach of industrial relations practices.
