In a letter to David Pugh, UNISON branch secretary Mark Chiverton reports that on a daily basis, staff express their "huge sense of dismay, and almost despair, about the medium to long term future of the Island" to him and that the council need to recognise there is still a "deep unhappiness amongst staff groups working unsocial hours - many of whom are low paid (e.g. care staff, Floating Bridge workers, crematorium, technicians etc)."