{"id":26718,"date":"2025-04-17T05:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/26718\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T05:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:38:09","slug":"birmingham-easter-bin-collections-confirmed-as-strike-dispute-rumbles-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/26718\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Easter bin collections confirmed as strike dispute rumbles on"},"content":{"rendered":"

Birmingham City Council has confirmed its Easter bin collection schedule – with no collections planned for one day\"BirminghamBirmingham City Council workers at a Mobile Household Waste Centre at Green Lane Mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham<\/p>\n

The council has confirmed Easter bin collection details as the strike by union members continues after a breakdown in talks.<\/p>\n

Unite members have been embroiled in a bitter dispute with Birmingham City Council<\/a> since the start of the year, when the authority announced it was axing its Waste Recycling and Collection Officer roles.<\/p>\n

The dispute ramped up on March 11 to an all-out strike \u2013 with Unite members walking out and protesting at picket lines at the city\u2019s three waste depots.<\/p>\n

And after more than a month, bin lorries manned by non-striking crews have been delayed leaving the depots.<\/p>\n

Read more: Birmingham bin strike talks break down as union make ‘four demands’<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

And piles of waste piling up in the city\u2019s streets, any hopes of a pre-Easter resolution ended this week when the latest council offer was rejected<\/a> on Monday (April 14)<\/p>\n

And on Wednesday, Unite said talks had broken down<\/a> and were making four demands for the strike to end.<\/p>\n

Amidst the ongoing dispute, the city council has been battling to keep a basic bin service going, aiming to have one collection of household waste from every city address a week.<\/p>\n

\"RubbishRubbish left at the side of Stratford Rd, Sparkhill, Birmingham, during the bin strike<\/p>\n

And it has now confirmed its Easter collection schedule in Birmingham<\/a>, with a \u2018usual\u2019 or \u2018strike usual\u2019 service expected on Good Friday (April 18) despite it being a Bank Holiday.<\/p>\n

There will also be a limited Easter Saturday (April 19) service as crews battle to clear some of the bin bag backlog.<\/p>\n

But there will be no collections on Easter Sunday (April 20).<\/p>\n

Then on Easter Monday (April 21) waste collection crews will be back out again \u2018as usual\u2019.<\/p>\n

Read more: Council issues redundancy notices to striking bin workers but ‘wants a deal’<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The council\u2019s five Household Recycling Centres will remain open across the Easter weekend, including on Sunday.<\/p>\n

And they will be operating extended hours throughout the weekend, but slots must be booked in advance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tyseley<\/a>, Castle Bromwich<\/a>, Perry Barr<\/a>, Sutton Coldfield<\/a> are open Monday to Friday 7am to 9pm while Kings Norton<\/a> is 10am to 10pm on weekdays.<\/p>\n

While all sites are open from 8am to 6pm on Saturdays and Sundays.<\/p>\n

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In a statement, a city council spokesperson said: \u201cWe continue to make great progress in getting all the waste collection crews out on time and clearing the backlog of rubbish in areas still affected.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs of Wednesday 16th, we had cleared 20,000 tons of household waste with support from partners, residents and Birmingham City Council staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to everyone\u2019s hard work, we\u2019re now able to return to following our contingency plan \u2013 providing you with one collection each week on your designated collection day.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth our waste collection and clean-up crews have been working hard across the city.<\/p>\n

Typically, we collect around 1,000 to 1,100 tonnes of waste per day.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemarkably, during the current industrial action our teams have managed to collect around 1,500 \u20131,700 daily despite having a reduced team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis just shows the dedication of our teams and the pressing need to transform the service to deliver a more resilient and efficient solution for Birmingham residents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City Council has confirmed its Easter bin collection schedule – with no collections planned for one dayBirmingham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,7831,984,748,393,4884,16243,15267,7829,11849,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-26718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-bin-strike","10":"tag-birmingham-city-council","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-kings-norton-and-brandwood","15":"tag-perry-barr","16":"tag-sutton-coldfield","17":"tag-tyseley","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114351695723917376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26718","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=26718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}