{"id":921964,"date":"2026-04-27T14:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/921964\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:08:21","slug":"birmingham-council-leader-says-end-to-year-long-bin-strike-within-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/921964\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham council leader says end to year-long bin strike ‘within sight’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A significant moment in this long-running saga… but it’s far from overpublished at 14:36 BST<\/p>\n

14:36 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Kathryn Stanczyszyn<\/strong>
Political Reporter, Birmingham<\/p>\n

This marks a significant moment in this long-running saga that has caused so much disruption to the city of Birmingham.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s far from over. <\/p>\n

The Labour administration say they have the framework of a deal that could end the strike and that they will instruct officers to move ahead with that deal if they are still in power after the local election. <\/p>\n

Unite says this forms the basis of an acceptable situation for members – including compensation for drivers which was a former sticking point – and that it\u2019s a jumping off point for any party in charge here to work from. <\/p>\n

There are a lot of questions, though: <\/p>\n

How some of the equal pay issues that the council leadership was so adamant were a problem have been overcome. <\/p>\n

Whether this proposal has the backing of officers and the commissioners still overseeing the council. <\/p>\n

And whether it will make any difference to the public going to the polls on 7 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A significant moment in this long-running saga… but it’s far from overpublished at 14:36 BST 14:36 BST Kathryn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-921964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116477067926563445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921964","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=921964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}