Unite Union Rejects Birmingham Binmen Offer and Threatens to Strike Until Christmas – Guido Fawkes

Unite Union Rejects Birmingham Binmen Offer and Threatens to Strike Until Christmas

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Unite has just announced that the bin strikes will continue and could go on until Christmas. Circa 400 striking bin-men voted in favour of further action…

General secretary Sharon Graham said:

“After smearing these workers in public since January and telling them to accept a fair and reasonable offer that never existed, the council finally put a proposal in writing last week… It had been watered down by the government commissioners and the leader of the council despite them never having been in the negotiations… It beggars belief that a Labour government and Labour council is treating these workers so disgracefully… Unite calls on the decision makers to let common sense prevail in upcoming negotiations.”

Unite says it could drag this on until Christmas if its demands aren’t met. They might be hoping for help from the Chancellor, who supported bin strikes in her own constituency in the past. Graham says it snow problem for the union to keep going…

Graham has also today said Labour should “stop digging” and reverse the winter fuel payment cuts in full: “You can’t leave pensioners in limbo while you work out plans for taxing the families of the deceased – just reverse it now.” Merry Christmas Keir…