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    Der Müllstreik in Birmingham hat die Marke von einem Jahr erreicht, und ein Ende ist nicht in Sicht


    Der Müllstreik in Birmingham hat die Marke von einem Jahr erreicht, und ein Ende ist nicht in Sicht

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1509kklkzvo

    Von HBucket

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    16 Kommentare

    1. CorrosiveSpirit on

      That’s beyond embarrassing for the council. Glad I don’t live there, place probably reeks.

    2. CaptMelonfish on

      There can’t be a years worth of rubbish on the streets?
      Is someone picking stuff up at least?

      Also, how have the binmen gone a year without wages? Is the union paying them or have they all left for other jobs? (Like private bin collections)?

    3. Stwltd on

      At this point I think the residents need to start their own protests at the picket line insisting both sides sort it out.

      Telling the council AND the strikers to solve their differences.

    4. tosher11 on

      Safety hazard in flats cardboard is stacked up to the ceiling and over flowing not what we pay council taxes for!

    5. Jaded-Researcher3025 on

      Labours incompetence on the local level is doing great for reform come the next local elections

    8. Dark_Akarin on

      at what point do you just cut your losses and hire a full new set of staff to replace the people on strike?

    9. runman07 on

      I’m surprised there aren’t more strikes nationwide. Council staff have had pay freezes/next to nothing awards since austerity.

      Outside the headline pay awards (train drivers, teachers, doctors) the majority are as shafted as everyone else. Just look at salaries on new job listings, most are rubbish.

    10. bars_and_plates on

      Can anyone explain to me how this sort of thing even works?

      If I personally employed someone to take out my bins, and they stopped doing it, I would stop paying them.

      What’s the deal? I assume that the entire staff here aren’t independently wealthy, so is there some sort of law that means the council has to pay them for not doing their job?

      Doesn’t it defeat the point of a strike if there’s no downside and you’re being paid anyway? What is the incentive to not just continually strike forever? How does this benefit anyone?

      Are they all just doing other jobs and retaining ther titles in name only?

      Do I live in a hole? It all sounds mad.

    11. knightsbridge- on

      I live in Brum.

      Bins have bene collected just fine for the last nine or ten months. The photos in that article are quite old – it only looked like that for the first month or so while contractors were being brought in.

      The only thing that isn’t being collected is recycling, but people are just putting it in the normal waste and nobody’s getting fined.

      Honestly, I’m not sure how much it’s costing the council, but everything’s fine here.

    12. B1ueRogue on

      Just get the military involved tired of this blackmailing demand for more money..down voted me i dont care, get a grip.

    14. PangolinOk6793 on

      As a Birmingham resident and bins get emptied randomly a couple times a month. Recycling doesn’t exist and it’s now a completely normal mentality to black bag everything. Decades long recycling habits of over a million people broken. That’s the legacy this will have.

    15. Astriania on

      It won’t be fixed until the ridiculous equal pay case is reinterpreted or legislative advice/changes issued to make it so you can legitimately pay binmen more than cafeteria staff.

    16. Gold-Reality-1988 on

      They’re getting people ready to have to dispose of your rubbish yourself when government cuts gut even more public services…

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