{"id":923256,"date":"2026-04-28T04:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/923256\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:03:24","slug":"end-in-sight-for-birmingham-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/923256\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;End in sight&#8217; for Birmingham strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/Image\/End-in-sight-for-Birmingham-strike\/strike1\/jpg\" alt=\"End in sight for Birmingham strike image\" class=\"img-responsive img-full\"\/>Agency workers join bin strikes in Birmingham \u00a9 Mark Thomas&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>        After more than a year of industrial action, Birmingham City Council&#8217;s leader John Cotton has tabled an offer he believes will \u2018end the strike once and for all&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Bin workers in the city have been on an all-out strike since March 2025, and were later joined by agency staff brought in to provide cover.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themj.co.uk\/end-sight-birmingham-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The MJ<\/a> (\u00a3) to continue reading.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/form\/bulletin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/HR.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Agency workers join bin strikes in Birmingham \u00a9 Mark Thomas&#13; &#13; After more than a year of industrial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,10843,897,2841,135696,16,34004,15],"class_list":["post-923256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-industrial-action","tag-jobs","tag-pay","tag-strike-action","tag-uk","tag-unions","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116480352389879122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923256","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=923256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}