{"id":25841,"date":"2025-04-16T22:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25841\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T22:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:06:15","slug":"fury-as-just-41-bin-workers-said-to-be-behind-strike-holding-birmingham-to-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25841\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury as just 41 bin workers said to be behind strike holding Birmingham to ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUST 41 bin workers are said to be behind the strike holding Britain\u2019s second biggest city to ransom in a pay dispute.<\/p>\n<p>The group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/34466738\/birmingham-bin-staff-reject-deal-pay-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejected a deal<\/a> to end the six-week walkout in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>, council officials admitted yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pile of rubbish bags on a residential street during a refuse collectors' strike.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"PA\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rubbish-bags-poplar-road-birmingham-987397666.jpg\" data-caption=\"Just 41 bin workers are said to be behind the strike holding Birmingham to ransom\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rubbish-bags-poplar-road-birmingham-987397666.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>5<\/p>\n<p>Just 41 bin workers are said to be behind the strike holding Birmingham to ransomCredit: PA<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sharon Graham speaking at the Labour Party Conference.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GETTY_Labour-Party-Conference-2024-Day-Four_NEW_GYI2174405021jpg-JS935830466.jpg\" data-caption=\"Unite chief Sharon Graham said strikes could spread\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GETTY_Labour-Party-Conference-2024-Day-Four_NEW_GYI2174405021jpg-JS935830466.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>5<\/p>\n<p>Unite chief Sharon Graham said strikes could spread<\/p>\n<p>And union leaders warned the crippling strike could spread to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/sheffield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheffield<\/a> and Peterborough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/34450668\/army-bin-crisis-rat-street-rubbish-birmingham-rayner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rubbish has piled up<\/a> in the streets, attracting an influx of rats.<\/p>\n<p>But the city council expects to have collected 22,000 tons of rotting waste by the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Operations chief Craig Cooper said around 130 of 170 waste <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/recycling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recycling<\/a> collection officers have accepted redundancy or to re-train as drivers.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThere are about 40 that haven\u2019t, and I urge those 40 to look again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I urge Unite to come to the table as swiftly as possible and for us to resolve this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shadow Cabinet minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/kevin-hollinrake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Hollinrake<\/a> said: \u201cForty-one workers holding Britain\u2019s second largest city to ransom shows how ideological and one-sided the unions are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unite chief Sharon Graham said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strikes<\/a> could spread.<\/p>\n<p>She told LBC Radio: \u201cWell, if other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/councils\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">councils<\/a> decide to make low-paid workers pay for bad decisions, then absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, we all have to take action in those other areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Labour has proven they don&#8217;t give a toss about white working class girls &#8211; they should hang their heads in shame<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pile of overflowing garbage bags on a residential street during a bin workers' strike.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"SWNS\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-long-running-strike-bin-987404073.jpg\" data-caption=\"Huge piles of rubbish has accumulated in the streets\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-long-running-strike-bin-987404073.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>5<\/p>\n<p>Huge piles of rubbish has accumulated in the streetsCredit: SWNS<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pile of uncollected garbage bags on a residential street during a bin workers' strike.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"SWNS\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-long-running-strike-bin-987430155.jpg\" data-caption=\"The city council expects to have collected 22,000 tons of rotting waste by the weekend\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-long-running-strike-bin-987430155.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>5<\/p>\n<p>The city council expects to have collected 22,000 tons of rotting waste by the weekendCredit: SWNS<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rat running toward garbage bags on a brick sidewalk.\" height=\"667\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"PA\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rat-runs-towards-rubbish-bags-987397485.jpg\" data-caption=\"The rubbish piled up in the streets has attracted an influx of rats\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rat-runs-towards-rubbish-bags-987397485.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>5<\/p>\n<p>The rubbish piled up in the streets has attracted an influx of ratsCredit: PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JUST 41 bin workers are said to be behind the strike holding Britain\u2019s second biggest city to ransom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,820,7101,118,16,15,7858],"class_list":{"0":"post-25841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-section-newsuk-news","13":"tag-strikes","14":"tag-the-sun-newspaper","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-west-midlands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114349918661963606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25841","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=25841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}