Probation officers in England and Wales have voted to strike over government privatisation plans.
Private firms and charities are currently bidding for contracts worth £450m to supervise 225,000 low and medium-risk offenders each year.
The National Association of Probation Officers (Napo) said there had been an 46% turn-out, with more than 80% voting yes for action. No date has been given.
Napo has said the changes would "put communities at risk".
Under the government's proposals, most of the Probation Service's current work will be done under new payment-by-results contracts, to be awarded in 20 English regions. The whole of Wales will be one region.
The contracts would mean that low and medium risk offenders will be supervised by a mix of private firms, charities and voluntary groups.
'Open to talks'A new public sector body, the National Probation Service, will be created to deal with the rehabilitation of 31,000 high-risk offenders each year.
Speaking after the ballot in Llandudno, Napo general secretary Ian Lawrence said: "We now have a mandate for industrial action that we shall be pursuing with vigour, but as always Napo will be seeking to avoid this if possible by way of further negotiations with ministers."
He said "decimating the award-winning public sector Probation Service and selling it off to the likes of G4S and Serco will result in increased re-offending rates, a lack of continuity in risk management, and will see the privateers making huge profits at the expense of victims, offenders and taxpayers."
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