{"id":17424,"date":"2019-02-26T16:13:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T16:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=17424"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:57:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:57:13","slug":"birmingham-bin-dispute-latest-reschedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=17424","title":{"rendered":"‘Goodwill gesture’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unite has rescheduled tomorrow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (February 26) intended Birmingham bin strike as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098gesture of goodwill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in a bid to break the deadlock.<\/p>\n

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Three days of peace talks, hosted by the conciliation service Acas, between Unite and Birmingham council have failed to reach a deal to end the industrial action over \u00e2\u20ac\u0098secret payments\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098blacklisting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of bin workers.<\/p>\n

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The final day of the talks (February 26) failed to adequately progress. The talks were attended by the council officers only with the leader of the council and the councillor for waste being absent. Those same council officials then left the talks at lunch to attend Birmingham council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s budget meeting.<\/p>\n

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Despite this disappointing response, Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Birmingham bin workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 representatives, have met and decided as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098gesture of goodwill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to reschedule tomorrow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strike, to give the council a final chance to come forward with an acceptable offer to end the dispute.<\/p>\n

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Unite assistant general secretary Howard Beckett said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite representatives cannot be on a picket line and attend Acas. They have decided to reschedule tomorrow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strike as a gesture of goodwill to the people of Birmingham and to show their clear intent to use all efforts to reach a resolution.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBirmingham council needs to grasp this gesture and fully understand that it is drinking in the last chance saloon. If a deal cannot be agreed tomorrow then further strikes action will resume on Thursday,” he added.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt has been hugely disappointing that Birmingham council has failed to appreciate the urgency of securing a deal and their actions today saw them effectively run the clock down rather than reach a deal to end the dispute.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBirmingham residents are crying out for the council to show leadership to end this dispute. Tomorrow is the final opportunity before further strikes take place.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf talks are to be successful then the council needs to make offers that ensure parity with the secret payments that they have already paid to workers who did not take part in the 2017 strikes.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Last week saw two separate 24 hour bin strikes, which resulted in large-scale disruption to the refuse collection service.<\/p>\n

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If a deal to end the strikes is not agreed tomorrow (February 27) then the strikes scheduled for Thursday (February 28) and next month will go ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unite has rescheduled tomorrow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (February 26) intended Birmingham bin strike as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098gesture of goodwill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in a bid to break the deadlock.   Three days of peace talks, hosted by the conciliation service Acas, between Unite and Birmingham council have failed to reach a deal to end the industrial action over \u00e2\u20ac\u0098secret payments\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[805,788,1117],"wps_subtitle":"Birmingham bin dispute latest -- Unite reschedules next bin strike ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17424"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25494,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17424\/revisions\/25494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}