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The Birmingham binworkers’ strike has now been going on for a year – and Birmingham City Council don’t care. They haven’t even bothered to turn up to negotiations for six months, while disgracefully stopping the binworkers and their union, UNITE from picketing their workplaces with an injunction.
So supporters of the binworkers have taken it upon themselves to take direct action and shut down depots instead – and these actions are increasing week by week, leaving the service in complete chaos and the council increasingly desperate as their popularity nosedives.
This video shows how you can shut down a depot, with footage from one of the solidarity pickets on January 12. So now it’s over to you. UNITE is barred from organising these actions, but the rest of us can; so why not turn up at a depot with your mates one morning and do a slow walk yourself?
It would be massively appreciated by workers who still have the threat of an 8K a year paycut hanging over their heads – and it could really help in forcing the council to resolve this dispute once and for all – for the workers, and for the people of Birmingham.
