{"id":46661,"date":"2025-04-24T13:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/46661\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T13:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:06:21","slug":"fresh-talks-over-birmingham-bin-strike-to-be-held-on-may-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/46661\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh talks over Birmingham bin strike to be held on May Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By contributor Alan Jones, PA Industrial Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/6e6be4f6-36c1-46cf-9df8-99ab1c837ffe.jpg\"   alt=\"Rubbish bags piled up in front of bins in Moseley Road, Birmingham\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Rubbish bags piled up in front of bins in Birmingham (Aaron Chown\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Fresh talks aimed at resolving the long-running Birmingham bin strike are to be held on May Day.<\/p>\n<p>Conciliation service Acas will be involved in the meeting for the first time since the row flared earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The inclusion of Acas was agreed on Wednesday during a brief meeting between Unite and Birmingham City Council.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2.79429726.jpg\" alt=\"Rows of overflowing bins in the Selly Oak area of Birmingham\" data-title=\"Birmingham refuse workers strike\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Jacob King\" data-usage-terms=\"\"  \/>Rows of overflowing bins in the Selly Oak area of Birmingham (Jacob King\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of members of Unite have been on all-out strike for more than a month in a dispute over pay and jobs, leading to rubbish piling up in the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Acas director of dispute resolution Kevin Rowan said: \u201cWe can confirm that Birmingham City Council and Unite have agreed to Acas conciliation talks to help them resolve the current dispute involving refuse workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe talks are scheduled to take place on May 1.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By contributor Alan Jones, PA Industrial Correspondent Rubbish bags piled up in front of bins in Birmingham (Aaron&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,1259,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-46661","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-uk-news","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114393093501658787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46661","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=46661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}