Top Birmingham Council commissioner's firm selling £46 scented candles as bins strike rumbles on - Birmingham Live

Top Birmingham Council commissioner's firm selling £46 scented candles as bins strike rumbles on - Birmingham Live

New lead commissioner of the authority dealing with mountains of rubbish is a director of a company selling scented candles

Birmingham bin workers hold strong mega picket! - Workers Revolutionary Party

THE 400 STRIKING Birmingham bin workers held a ‘mega-picket’ on Friday 25th July, with trade unionists travelling from all over the country and arriving at the picket lines at the four sites in the city from 6am. The Birmingham bin workers have been on an all-out indefinite strike since April against attempts by the Labour […]

Union boss tells Angela Rayner ‘government can’t sit on hands’ over Birmingham bin strike row

The boss of a union representing striking bin workers in Britain’s second city has hit out at Downing Street’s handling of the crisis in a letter to deputy PM Angela Rayner. Nearly 400 council workers in Birmingham went on an indefinite walkout last month in a bitter dispute over pay and jobs. Now, in a leaked letter seen by the Mirror, Unite’s Sharon Graham has told Rayner the government can’t “simply sit on its hands saying ‘nothing to do with…