{"id":688541,"date":"2026-01-11T08:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/688541\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T08:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:42:10","slug":"enough-is-enough-says-bishop-on-birmingham-bin-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/688541\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough is enough, says bishop on Birmingham bin strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Referring to operations to clear the streets of Christmas waste, the city council said 1,753 tonnes of waste was collected at kerbside on 29 December<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It said voluntary redundancies meant there were now 275 union members taking industrial action as opposed to 370 at the beginning of 2025. <\/p>\n

Councillor Majid Mahmood recently told the BBC that waste collections had improved in recent months, although recycling remained suspended, as it has been since industrial action began<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said the council would also be recruiting staff for its new food waste collection service, which is set to be rolled out from June, alongside the previous recycling service.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been negotiating with Unite now for 12 months and we’ve made multiple offers, fair and reasonable offers to Unite, all of which have been rejected,” he said.<\/p>\n

Talks to end the dispute broke down early in the summer of 2025, with the council announcing in July it was pressing ahead with its restructuring plans.<\/p>\n

But Unite said members are staying “rock solid” on their industrial action.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the union said: “There will be no end to the strikes, until there’s a fair deal for Birmingham’s bin workers.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Referring to operations to clear the streets of Christmas waste, the city council said 1,753 tonnes of waste…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-688541","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\/115875580809867673","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688541","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=688541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}