{"id":398450,"date":"2026-01-30T09:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398450\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:01:07","slug":"birmingham-bin-collections-suspended-because-of-mega-picket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398450\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham bin collections suspended because of &#8216;mega-picket&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council asked people who were due a Friday collection to leave their bin out, so the rubbish could be collected as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A group called Strike Map, which records the locations of strikes around the country, said it had co-ordinated the day of action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said it expected thousands of trade unionists to visit the city for the pickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The co-founder of Strike Map, Henry Fowler, said there would be more co-ordinated pickets until the strike was resolved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unite is in dispute with Birmingham City Council over several changes the local authority is making, including getting rid of a job role within the refuse operation and cutting another role&#8217;s pay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said it was &#8220;forging ahead&#8221; with transformation of the waste service, which needed improvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unite claims that the council is now refusing to negotiate, but the local authority maintains the union has rejected &#8220;fair and reasonable&#8221; offers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier in the week, the city council reported that protesters were blocking the entrances to its depots, causing delays to departing bin lorries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In some areas of the city, bins have not been emptied for a second week in a row, causing rubbish to build up on pavements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council asked people who were due a Friday collection to leave their bin out, so the rubbish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-398450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}