{"id":61728,"date":"2025-04-30T02:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/61728\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T02:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:02:17","slug":"birmingham-lorry-drivers-pay-cuts-an-escalation-of-bin-strike-union-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/61728\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham lorry drivers\u2019 pay cuts \u2018an escalation\u2019 of bin strike, union says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopes of resolving the bitter Birmingham bins dispute have been hit after Unite said lorry drivers\u2019 pay is to be cut.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the union have been on all-out strike since last month, leading to rubbish piling up on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Talks involving the conciliation service Acas are to be held on Thursday after Unite said a deal could be \u201cwithin touching distance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The union said the council had decided to cut the pay of drivers, warning it was an escalation of the dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said:\u201cToday\u2019s actions show clearly that Unite has been correct all along.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBirmingham City Council is taking money off workers to pay off their debt to the Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorkers are again paying the price for bad decision after bad decision.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2.79744423.jpg\" alt=\"Birmingham refuse workers strike\" 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=\"\"  \/>A rat runs towards rubbish bags in Poplar Road in Birmingham (Jacob King\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnite will not stand by and allow the council and this Labour government to inflict these savage pay cuts on workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is completely unjustified and a clear escalation of the dispute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will not be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo worker should be expected to lose these eye-watering amounts of money from their pay packet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government has protected a Labour council that has been treating workers in this outrageous way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is no wonder Labour is increasingly not seen as the party of workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should hang their heads in shame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unite said that, under the council\u2019s plans, the pay rate of drivers will reduce from \u00a340,000 to \u00a332,000, a pay cut of \u00a38,000.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hopes of resolving the bitter Birmingham bins dispute have been hit after Unite said lorry drivers\u2019 pay is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61729,"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-61728","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\/114424456470964493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61728","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=61728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}