Dozens of council officers and managers responsible for running Bristol’s housing services walked out on strike on Friday (October 21) - saying their workloads are ‘unsustainable’ and the housing department at the council is ‘in crisis’.
Around 50 housing officers, mainly from the Unite union but also from the Unison union, were picketing on Friday outside the council’s offices at 100 Temple Street, after walking out on strike in protest at the way council chiefs are running the housing department.
They will also strike today (Monday, October 24), and say they are a ‘broken service with a broken staff’ and council chiefs have done nothing about their issues. Bristol City Council say they are ‘disappointed’ at the strike but they are carrying out an ‘essential modernisation’ of the service, which means changes.
