OT State of Emergency in Birmingham

[animallittle3]

I would have thought that anyone who is willing to sacrifice their pay for 7 weeks must have a very valid reason for doing so .

Not only that if the industrial action has held together for nearly two months and given the anti Union laws in this country are pretty robust it just in my opinion suggests the workers may have some pretty credible concerns .

[Spuddy Speight]

Brummie Bin Strike.
Unite have gone on strike because a small number of their union members have had their wages cut by approximately 8,000 pounds a year.
Deputy PM, Ginger Rayner stated that an offer had been put on the table to help resolve the current impasse.
Some Brummie residents have now started to burn their rubbish. That should sort out the rats.


In other Royal news Charles and Camilla have continued their 20th wedding anniversary holiday/ state visit to Italy with a Saga coach trip to the Vatican and an audience with The Pope.

Other holidaymakers on the coach trip weren't allowed anywhere near the Pope's inner circle for health and safety reasons.
The other Saga holidaymakers were invited instead to a local Gregg's shop where they witnessed a number of shoplifters grabbing sausage rolls and running off with the booty while trippers were tucking into egg and cress sandwiches.


God Save Our King!

[Lolmorgan]

Brummie Bin Strike.
Unite have gone on strike because a small number of their union members have had their wages cut by approximately 8,000 pounds a year.
Deputy PM, Ginger Rayner stated that an offer had been put on the table to help resolve the current impasse.
Some Brummie residents have now started to burn their rubbish. That should sort out the rats.


In other Royal news Charles and Camilla have continued their 20th wedding anniversary holiday/ state visit to Italy with a Saga coach trip to the Vatican and an audience with The Pope.

Other holidaymakers on the coach trip weren't allowed anywhere near the Pope's inner circle for health and safety reasons.
The other Saga holidaymakers were invited instead to a local Gregg's shop where they witnessed a number of shoplifters grabbing sausage rolls and running off with the booty while trippers were tucking into egg and cress sandwiches.


God Save Our King!

So that?s where S/Es gone Italy to greggs.

[Spuddy Speight]

So that?s where S/Es gone Italy to greggs.

Bet SE doesn't get to kiss the Pope's ring if he is in Italy.

[caytonmiller]

Bet SE doesn't get to kiss the Pope's ring if he is in Italy.

I'm sure SE sees it the other way around

[caytonmiller]

A longstanding Unite member from the West Midlands told the BBC that while commissioners at the council bore some of the responsibility for the dispute, the regional office of Unite was unhappy it had been bypassed.

[caytonmiller]

The council said it scrapped the WRCO role to put the city's waste operations in line with national practice and to improve its waste collection service.

It rebutted the union's claims, saying it has offered the union a deal that means no worker needs to lose any money over the removal of the WRCO role.

It said all workers have been offered alternative employment at the same pay, driver training or voluntary redundancy and that offer remains open.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Also neighbouring Lichfield council offered to send over their crews and lorries to stop the rubbish piles growing. The Birmingham crews scuppered that by blockading the waste sites and walking slowly in front of the bin lorries

[Lolmorgan]

strike by bin workers in Birmingham is set to continue after the latest pay offer by the city council was "overwhelmingly" rejected. Just heard the Roma,s at Eastwood have taken lorry loads to Birmingham seen has its a free for all dumping ground,Eastwood hasn?t look has good for months.