Environment Agency

The Prospect scientific and technical union reacted angrily to news that the Environment Agency is to lose more than 10% of its staff — 1,400 jobs — as a result of the current round of austerity cuts.

Negotiator Kevin Warden warned that the organisation’s flood warning service would suffer.

www.prospect.org.uk/news/story/2013/October/11/Prospect-slams-1,400-environment-job-cuts