Birmingham teenager raped schoolgirl, 13<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n“The only way this dispute will end is with a fair and reasonable deal for Birmingham’s bin workers.\u201d<\/p>\n
City council leader John Cotton insisted forced redundancies would be \u201cvery much a last resort\u201d and said the authority was \u201clooking to work with staff to identify alternative jobs for anyone affected.\u201d<\/p>\n
Talks between the council and the union have stalled since July, with no sign of a breakthrough. In the meantime, the city\u2019s recycling and garden waste collections remain suspended, and food waste services are still \u201con hold\u201d until the crippling strike is resolved.<\/p>\n
Commenter Dominion asks: \u201cReally? Does anyone care now as the agency workers are doing a fine job?!\u201d<\/p>\n
Emerald009 agrees: \u201cIt seems pointless going back now, sack the lot of them, and take on the agency workers who kept it going,\u201d<\/p>\n
DenW adds: \u201cThe whole of our road hopes they never come back, the agency workers are so much better!\u201d<\/p>\n
Whatsitallcomingtoo wants to know: \u201cHow much are the agency staff being paid? Do the agency staff have a Waste Recycling and Collection Officer role?\u201d<\/p>\n
Munkster says: \u201cI don\u2019t understand why they are complaining about losing a person on the truck. When the truck comes to collect my larger community bin, it’s just ONE man. The council will learn from the strikes that they really don’t need that extra person.<\/p>\n
“They should get on with the redundancies as the last resort has been and gone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Notsilentmajority wonders: \u201cWhat happened to those redundancy notices, did they get lost in the post? Perhaps the postman couldn’t make it up the driveway to their letterbox because of all the bins? Anyway, remind yourselves of this situation at the next election, and definitely the next time you see your Council Tax bill.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oldburyblue points out: \u201cThe union claims that the Council are telling lies and the Council accuses the Union of doing likewise. How about discussions take place in public so that we can all make up our own minds?\u201d<\/p>\n
Gcx replies: \u201cThe council needs to terminate them and get on with restructuring waste collection. Restructures from time to time are a normal part of business, Unite are defending the indefensible and not acting in their members interests.\u201d<\/p>\n
Monikal adds: \u201c\u00a3350 per week strike pay! I personally know a driver who drives for an agency 3 days a week and two refuse workers who have a landscaping company on the side. They want to stay out!\u201d<\/p>\n
Fed up with Birmingham\u2019s bin saga? What do you think should happen next? Share your views in the comments.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bin workers have voted ‘overwhelmingly’ to extend their mandate for industrial actionBirmingham bin workers are protesting over proposed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,7831,984,748,10006,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-404764","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-commenting-content","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115162031351177126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404764","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=404764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Birmingham bin workers are protesting over proposed pay cuts and say Labour are set to lose control of Birmingham City Council next year (Image: Guy Smallman\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n