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    Birmingham bin agency workers vote to join strike
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    Birmingham bin agency workers vote to join strike

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    1. a_bone_to_pick on

      When the conditions are so crap that the scabs you bring in to break the strikes end up joining them, maybe it’s time to cut your losses.

    2. Jaded_Strain_3753 on

      What a shambles this whole saga is. Can central government intervene in this at some point to take responsibility away from the council?

    3. Necessary-Product361 on

      Lol, what an absolue cockup. Maybe people will now realise that the issue isn’t greedy bin men, but the council who treats them like shit.

    4. Ochib on

      Problem is that their employer is the agency and not BCC and this would be secondary action. The agency would be within their rights to stack all the striking agency workers and hire new workers

    5. Impossible-Bar8099 on

      FFS.

      The council had a judgement against them in a prior case set up by the unions around equal pay/gender discrimination, to the tune of 3/4 of a billion, because they argued succesfully it was gender discrimination for people in other job roles because bin workers were paid more.

      So the council then end up being more or less forced to get rid of a certain job role for bin men as safety officers or be at risk of more legal action (which, as far as I’m aware, isn’t a role that is present in other councils anyway) so the unions then supported them to strike. Apparently about 150 to 170 of its members are facing pay cuts of up to £8,000 annually which is the basis of the strike.

      The council have then treated the agency bin men they’ve hired like complete shit to the point they’ve then *joined the fucking strike.*

      I am all for workers standing up for their rights but the whole thing is a farce and needs to get sorted out. An entire city of 1.1m have not been having any municipal recycling collections for 7 months now because of a strike involving <200 bin men, apparently all of these people have been offered roles in other jobs.

    6. mm339 on

      I live in Birmingham and my area has, largely, been unaffected by the strikes (not had recycling collected all year though) but I suspect some of that will be due to agency hires. For the most part I back unions, and things must be bad if the agency staff are striking too. It’s going to get messy… literally.

    7. Mrsparkles7100 on

      “Now we have to go in to get the men who went in to get the men who went in to get the men”.

    8. philelope on

      damn, the repercussions of misbanding a bunch of jobs in the payroll system. I’d like to be a fly on the wall in that moment, was it a clerical error, or a conscious choice by a manager who didn’t take it seriously enough?

    10. DanzaDragon on

      Are Birmingham residents still paying the full rate of council tax each month despite paying in part for waste collection then being denied service? 

    11. Lo_jak on

      Hahahahahahahahahahaha……. what a fucking clusterfuck this has turned out to be. You have to laugh cause you couldn’t write this shit.