{"id":295296,"date":"2025-07-27T07:13:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/295296\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T07:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:13:34","slug":"sheffield-bin-strikes-to-continue-indefinitely-union-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/295296\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield bin strikes to continue indefinitely, union says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to Veolia, Unite represents approximately a quarter of the workforce, but Unite has previously disputed this figure, claiming it represents 80%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Sweeting said Unite members wanted to be part of negotiations on subjects such as pay and conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Veolia said it already offered them &#8220;a voice and seat at the table&#8221;, but they rejected the offer to continue pursuing recognition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company said it would not grant this, because rival union GMB would retaliate with its own strikes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Sweeting called this &#8220;absolutely farcical&#8221;, because the majority of the workforce had &#8220;collectively signed that they will support recognition of their colleagues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, GMB has protested against Unite being recognised, raising a complaint to the Trades Union Congress and a counter dispute with Veolia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Veolia said Unite should &#8220;end this feud against a rival union and take the seat, rather than holding rallies and protests&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Veolia, Unite represents approximately a quarter of the workforce, but Unite has previously disputed this figure,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-295296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114923962740264220","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295296","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=295296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}