“She would use that opportunity to then explain to them why the bin workers were on strike, to spread awareness and support,” Mr Yates said.<\/p>\n
“When people would be slagging us off striking, she would put all the points across and correct them, telling them exactly what we were standing out there for.”<\/p>\n
Her death last month has come as a huge shock to all who knew her, and Mr Yates said it was only right to give back, honouring a woman who did so much for them.<\/p>\n
“I was absolutely shocked when I heard, I can only imagine how Steve is feeling losing the love of his life,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We called a meeting on the picket line to organise what we could do to support the funeral and him.”<\/p>\n
He said although it has been hard financially for those striking, no-one had questioned the idea of coming together to support one of their own.<\/p>\n
“Funeral’s are not exactly cheap, costing about \u00a37,500,” said Mr Yates<\/p>\n
“We just wanted to get it out there to anyone that wanted to help and give her the send off that she deserves for the work that she did for us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“She would use that opportunity to then explain to them why the bin workers were on strike, to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-407347","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-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115167713285455285","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407347","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=407347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}