{"id":553369,"date":"2026-04-27T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/553369\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:00:08","slug":"birmingham-council-leader-says-end-to-year-long-bin-strike-within-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/553369\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham council leader says end to year-long bin strike &#8216;within sight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A significant moment in this long-running saga&#8230; but it&#8217;s far from overpublished at 14:36 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:36 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/67b1fa6a-919e-4c5a-b75e-c24010f24db8.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Kathryn Stanczyszyn<br \/>Political Reporter, Birmingham<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This marks a significant moment in this long-running saga that has caused so much disruption to the city of Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s far from over. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Labour administration say they have the framework of a deal that could end the strike and that they will instruct officers to move ahead with that deal if they are still in power after the local election. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unite says this forms the basis of an acceptable situation for members &#8211; including compensation for drivers which was a former sticking point &#8211; and that it\u2019s a jumping off point for any party in charge here to work from. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are a lot of questions, though: <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">How some of the equal pay issues that the council leadership was so adamant were a problem have been overcome. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whether this proposal has the backing of officers and the commissioners still overseeing the council. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And whether it will make any difference to the public going to the polls on 7 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A significant moment in this long-running saga&#8230; but it&#8217;s far from overpublished at 14:36 BST 14:36 BST Kathryn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-553369","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\/553369","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=553369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}