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'I've been on bin strike for a year - city has turned into cesspit, I'm ashamed' Next week marks the first anniversary of the mass walkout that crippled Birmingham’s bin collections. It led to mountains of waste piling up in the city’s streets and fears of a public health crisis

🪧A year on strike. Why is @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social failing to negotiate an end for its workers and residents?
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🎶✊Let's get this in the charts to mark a year of indefinite #BrumBinStrike action!
Catch Dave from Banner Theatre chatting to BBC Radio WM about the new fundraising single for the Birmingham Bins strike, My Old Man's a Dustman. Buy it now 📀
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📣 March with us on March 28 in London
✊ When workers stand together we win. We win better jobs, pay and conditions. We win better public services and housing
When we divide we lose
💪 Don't let the haters and snake-oil salesmen divide us. Let's stand together and win
@togetheralliance.bsky.social

🍺 Brewdog founder James Watt says it 'hurts' & he would have 'loved to save every job.' Meanwhile hundreds of workers are unemployed & investors have lost everything. Watt? Still a multi-millionaire.
📣 Unite demands answers on unpaid wages & the best possible redundancy terms for all Brewdog workers

"Companies are swimming in debt & dividends while the rest of us are swimming in sewage
Unite will continue its campaign to see water brought back into public ownership so profits can be reinvested in vital infrastructure instead of paying millions to management executives” @unitesharon.bsky.social

📈 Profits on the rise again. Payouts to shareholders at record highs
💰 But instead of investing profits back into businesses, boosting innovating and creating jobs, bosses are rewarding themselves and shareholders
🔬 No money for a pay rise? Study those company accounts
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Be more Labour!
@unitesharon.bsky.social on #GortonandDenton ⏬

Is this why @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social leaders don't have time to negotiate an end to the bins strike? Too busy removing signs supporting the strikers?
What is happening Birmingham Council?
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😲 The average worker has lost £65k since the financial crisis in 2008
📈 While CEO & directors’ pay has boomed, along with profits & dividends
✊ Facts & Figures, from Unite fuels the pay campaigns that are putting hundreds of millions back into the pockets of Unite members www.unitetheunion.org/fand

Minimum wage bandings have been in the headlines this week. Unlike some, we say workers deserve fair wages, regardless of age.
The answer to fixing the economy and addressing youth unemployment isn’t minimum wage cuts for those already struggling. It’s investing in decent jobs and liveable wages

Youth services, vulnerable adult care, parks, bin collections... we rely on our local authorities every day. But too many face shortages, bankruptcy & debt. Send your MP a postcard and urge them to fight for the services that their constituents rely on ✍️
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🍻 Can you imaging a night out without bartenders, door staff, waiting staff...?
Yet this week in Liverpool industry leaders gathered to discuss the nighttime economy. Without the workers who make it run 🤯
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#WealthTax now!
💰Jim Ratcliffe has a net wealth of over £17bn
🌞He ‘lives’ in Monaco to avoid £4bn in income tax
🏭But he has huge assets here in the UK
TAX THEM!

The Labour Party has become devoid of purpose My union will chart its own course unless this government understands that ordinary people want real change

❓#WealthTax or benefits cuts?
❓Real investment in jobs & services or phoney fiscal rules?
Politics is about questions.
“What is @labouruk.bsky.social for? Who is it for?" It is what Labour does that is crucial, not just the personality of the leader” @unitesharon.bsky.social

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Birmingham bin workers vote to extend strikes past May elections and into September Council workers and Job & Talent workers more determined than ever to secure fair deal

🚨 BREAKING: Birmingham bins strikers vote 100% to keep striking right through the summer.
That will be another summer of chaos for workers & residents & a whole year of @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social failing to even negotiate. The bin workers and people of Birmingham deserve better!
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👏 Congratulations to the thousands of Unite members pushing back and winning better pay over the last month
💥 Since @unitesharon.bsky.social was elected General Secretary in August 2021, over 267,000 Unite members have stood up in nearly 1,600 disputes and won more than £620 million in better pay

"I think the bin workers have been treated despicably"
"It's about time @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social sit down with the bin workers & sort this problem out, because it's not fair"
Residents of Cotteridge in Birmingham make their feelings clear on their council's handling of the year-long bins strike

“This is the second time in less than two years that this government has denied 50s-born women the pension justice they are rightfully owed.
It is a disgraceful decision. This government needs to reflect on its treatment of #WASPI women. and change course.”
📣 Comment if you agree with Monica

Birmingham Council tell residents:
They have to take. £8k from bin workers because of equal pay. Legal advice says this is rubbish!
They are acting to save public money. Their wn report says the strike has cost them £33m. Rubbish!
The streets are clean. Rubbish!
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400 lawsuits @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social is facing from its workforce:
⚖️ ⁠Unfair dismissal
⚖️⁠ Making unlawful inducements
⚖️ ⁠Anti-union blacklisting
Liabilities run to millions. They are wasting a fortune by not settling the bins strike: £33m so far!

🕯️ Today we mark Holocaust Memorial Day & remember the 6 million Jewish people who were murdered in the Holocaust.
We also commemorate the millions of other persecuted people murdered by the Nazis and the millions more murdered in other genocides around the world. #WeRemember #NeverAgain

You can join Unite here join.unitetheunion.org

🏰 If your employer says you don't need a union - you might need one.
Everyone has the right to a union. So when it comes to securing #JobsPayConditions, don't leave all the power in your employers hands. After all, can you really trust them?

"The system is rigged and the country knows it. It's time for a wealth tax on the super-rich and a tax on excess profits" @unitesharon.bsky.social
Even millionaires agree. 💬 Comment and 🔄 share if you agree too
#Davos26 #WEF26 #WealthTax

“Inequality: the most interconnected global risk for a second year running" say WEF delegates.
So the big Q: Why the **** aren't ‘world leaders’ talking about taxing wealth?
It's time our government acted, they could start with a #WealthTax now!
Agree? 🗨️ Comment & 🔁 Share
#WEF26 #Davos26

Birmingham residents, community groups and businesses say "End the bins strike" Hundreds of Birmingham refuse workers have been on strike for over 12 months against pay cuts up to £8000. The Labour-run Council is effectively "firing and rehiring" loaders and drivers and has now ...

📣 Live in Birmingham? Local businesses, residents and community groups are emailing their local councillors and MPs. Join them and take action here ⤵️
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Local businesses in Birmingham are suffering. Like residents & bin workers, they want to see an end to the strike. Why did @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social walk away from a ballpark agreement and from all negotiations back in the summer 2025?
Do your job. Get in the room. Negotiate a fair settlement

✊ Stopping pay cuts and winning rises; better overtime and extra leave.
Workers across the UK & Ireland are fighting back and winning in Unite.
On your own you beg. Together we win 💥
#FightbackFriday #JobsPayConditions

Despite the rubbish in the streets and a year without recycling collections Birmingham residents stand behind bin workers facing a devastating loss of up to £8k a year.
📤 Join them and tell @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social to negotiate and end to the strike now
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