Earlier this year, the GMB and Veolia agreed an 8% pay rise over two years and a \u00a3750 bonus for all staff at the depot.<\/p>\n
Peter Davies of the GMB said previously: “Rights have been hard-fought for over recent decades, and our reps and members will not give them up. We have good terms and conditions.<\/p>\n
“We won’t give in to any union-busting attempts whether that is by an employer or, sadly, another trade union.”<\/p>\n
A GMB spokesperson added that its members had remained united both in the union and in their work.<\/p>\n
“Bins are being emptied across the city as normal. It’s hard to see what the point of it all is,” they added.<\/p>\n
Sheffield City Council said the strike had had minimal impact on bin collections and recycling.<\/p>\n
Councillor Joe Otten, chair of the environmental services committee, said previously: “Veolia are willing to work with both unions however the GMB must approve this change, and no agreement has been reached.”<\/p>\n
In July, Veolia began legal action against Unite and Ms Graham, saying they had launched a “defamatory campaign” against its employees, partners and investors.<\/p>\n
The company said it was standing up to the union’s “excessive tactics” and had not taken the decision lightly.<\/p>\n
Unite said it “completely and utterly” denied any allegation of defamation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this year, the GMB and Veolia agreed an 8% pay rise over two years and a \u00a3750…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-434329","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\/115227002401600335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434329","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=434329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}