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Mounds of waste remain uncollected in Birmingham as an all-out strike by workers continues. What is behind the industrial action and why is it taking so long to settle the dispute?
As a bin strike continues to affect Birmingham, we asked locals whether they think bin collections should be nationalised.
Tahir Ali, Labour MP for Hall Green and Moseley, first came under fire last month for supporting a campaign calling for a new ...
Birmingham’s bin strike enters its sixth week with no deal in sight. As council leaders and union reps dig in, residents face ...
The Birmingham bin strike is the fallout from an equal-pay claim brought by female cleaners. That bodes ill for the rest of ...
COMMENT: The comedian’s campervan trip to North America in search of places named after his home city proves that ...
Birmingham council—with the backing of Labour—has used police to break apart picket lines. And it is using scab labour and ...
WHILE streets are littered with rubbish amid bankrupt Birmingham’s bin strike – it seems inconceivable that the UK’s ...
Six weeks after the city's bin workers went on strike, bins are overflowing and rubbish is littered across pavements, despite ...
Bin bags which appear to have been ripped open by vermin with rotting food spilling out lay stacked on street corners along ...
A West Midlands-based housing group has joined the clean-up effort as bin strikes continue to plague the streets of ...