{"id":192896,"date":"2025-06-17T23:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192896\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T23:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:16:12","slug":"watch-tense-moment-birmingham-council-leader-faces-bins-strike-fury-as-man-asks-would-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192896\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch tense moment Birmingham council leader faces bins strike fury as man asks ‘would you’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Birmingham Council meeting was brought to a halt following interruptions from members of the public<\/p>\n

A Birmingham City Council meeting descended into turmoil on Tuesday afternoon as anger over the bins strike rumbles on.<\/p>\n

Council<\/a> leader John Cotton in particular faced fury from the public gallery in a tense moment before the meeting was dramatically adjourned.<\/p>\n

\u201cWould you take an \u00a38,000 pay cut Cotton?\u201d a man furiously shouted as Coun Cotton attempted to answer a question about the strike from a resident.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Five defining moments in Birmingham bins strike as grim milestone reached<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The dramatic scenes, which were caught on camera, continued as the man then yelled: \u201cWould you? Come on?<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m asking you directly John – would you take a \u00a38,000 pay cut?<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what you\u2019re expecting hard working bin workers to take.\u201d<\/p>\n

As he was guided out from the public gallery, he then shouted \u201cp*** off you \u201cd*******\u201d before being escorted through the doors to applause.<\/p>\n

The chaos continued however, with two further interruptions from members of the public before the Lord Mayor decided to adjourn the meeting for a short break.<\/p>\n

\"AA man in the public gallery is escorted out after interrupting a Birmingham City Council meeting(Image: Alexander Brock)<\/p>\n

A protest in support of the striking bin workers was also held outside the council house before the meeting got under way on Tuesday afternoon, June 17, which saw the council\u2019s leadership urged to stop the \u2018pay cuts\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Birmingham<\/a> bins strike was triggered by a dispute between the Labour-run council and Unite the union over plans to scrap a Waste Recycling and Collection Officer.<\/p>\n

Striking workers have raised concerns about pay in the past while the council\u2019s leadership has repeatedly insisted that a “fair and reasonable” offer has been made.<\/p>\n

The authority has also said previously that all WRCO workers had been offered alternative employment at the same pay, driver training or voluntary redundancy.<\/p>\n

Coun Cotton added that the council \u201ccannot and will not entertain anything that would re-open an equal pay liability\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Birmingham Council meeting was brought to a halt following interruptions from members of the public A Birmingham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,984,748,393,4884,285,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-192896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-council","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114701256994386192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}