Order something from this Amazon wishlist<\/a> and, working with Thrive Together Birmingham and Edgbaston Stadium, we will deliver direct to a poor or homeless child living in the area in time for Christmas day.<\/p>\n![\"Birmingham](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763066477_150_0_MQ.jpg\")
Birmingham Mail and Birmingham Live Grant a Christmas #Brumwish<\/p>\n
Some drivers employed through the Job & Talent agency have been working on the council\u2019s refuse service for more than a decade without being offered a full-time contract. Unite said the ranking exercise highlighted the lack of job security for agency staff.<\/p>\n
Agency workers on the refuse contract are set to join full-time council staff on the picket line from December 1.<\/p>\n
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham claimed: “The public ranking of the drivers\u2019 tachograph infringements is just another bullying tactic, along with blacklisting threats, to keep them in line.<\/p>\n
“The way these workers are being treated is disgraceful and Unite will provide maximum support in helping them ensure they are treated with the respect they deserve.”<\/p>\n
In a letter to the council, Unite national lead officer Onay Kasab said: “This is information that should be confidential, not available for public viewing and certainly not used for the purpose of publicly shaming employees.<\/p>\n
“I am certain that there is no provision within any council policy that allows for this to take place. Further, the council is in serious breach of GDPR regulations.”<\/p>\n
The council “strongly” denied the allegations of bullying.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the authority told BirminghamLive: “The purpose of the communication was about ongoing service improvements but we acknowledge that names should not have been published and the notice has been removed.<\/p>\n
“Following an internal review, it is confirmed this does not meet the criteria for notification to the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
“However, an overview of key performance indicators will continue to be shared to help drive improvement, which is standard practice.<\/p>\n
“Our crews\u2019 and contractors\u2019 workloads are in line with industry standards, with crew performance monitored to ensure collection standards are met.<\/p>\n
“Crews are supported throughout their employment, and the management team work in partnership with the agency and the collection crews to jointly review targets.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City Council has been accused of ‘bullying’ over ranking agency bin driversThe ‘league’ table with names blurred…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,7831,984,748,393,4884,285,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-595496","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-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115617321590911269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595496","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=595496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The ‘league’ table with names blurred out <\/p>\n