It's being suggested Clare County Council's winter maintenance programme could be significantly impacted if workers agree to go on strike.

The local authority's outdoor staff are to be balloted for industrial action within the next two weeks as part of an escalation in a dispute with management.

SIPTU, which represents those being balloted, claims the action is a result of "management’s refusal to engage with the State’s own industrial dispute resolution system", and that the issue stems from vehicle usage policies including parking arrangements.

SIPTU Organiser Arek Muszynski has been telling Clare FM's Seán Lyons the local authority hasn't engaged appropriately.