{"id":13155,"date":"2017-09-01T09:50:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T08:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=13155"},"modified":"2017-09-01T10:44:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T09:44:24","slug":"bin-strikes-set-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=13155","title":{"rendered":"Bin strikes set to resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>News that Birmingham city council had cancelled tomorrow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (September 1) cabinet meeting and would instead start issuing redundancy notices to refuse workers, would provoke the resumption of strike action, Unite warned today (August 31).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nDescribing the news contained in a letter from the council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interim chief executive as \u00e2\u20ac\u0098deeply provocative\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Unite warned that refuse workers could resume their industrial action as early as tomorrow and walk out for three hours on a daily basis at the following times &#8212; 7am, 10:30am and 1pm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUnite said it would re-ballot its members meaning industrial action could extend until the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is a deeply provocative act that drives a coach and horses through the agreement Unite reached with the council in good faith at the conciliation service Acas,&#8221; said Unite assistant general secretary Howard Beckett<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt does a great disservice to the people of Birmingham and the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s refuse workers who now face being made redundant and losing their livelihoods or pay cuts of thousands of pounds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe last thing refuse workers want to do is resume industrial action and see piles of rubbish accumulating on Birmingham\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s streets,&#8221; he added. &#8220;This is their city too. Our members want to focus on delivering a safe efficient service to people of Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bSadly it seems the council does not want to see that happen. Instead of embracing an agreement that would have seen compromise on all sides, the council seems content to put people on the dole and cut their wages by up to \u00c2\u01415,000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite calls on the council to come to its senses and withdraw these redundancy notices to avoid the disruption of industrial action.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News that Birmingham city council had cancelled tomorrow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (September 1) cabinet meeting and would instead start issuing redundancy notices to refuse workers, would provoke the resumption of strike action, Unite warned today (August 31). &nbsp; &nbsp; Describing the news contained in a letter from the council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interim chief executive as \u00e2\u20ac\u0098deeply provocative\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Unite warned that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[788,582],"wps_subtitle":"Unite warns Birmingham council over redundancies","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13157,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions\/13157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}