Responding to the news that residents face yet another bin strike under the Labour Administration of Birmingham City Council, Cllr Robert Alden (Con, Erdington), Leader of the Opposition and Birmingham Local Conservatives, said:
Just 48 hours after Labour Leader, Cllr John Cotton, hailed a ‘new era of productive and progressive industrial relations’, Birmingham residents are left facing the turning back of the clock as Unite the Union announced 3 months of strike action and work to rule that will bring even more chaos, rubbish and vermin to our streets. This is just the latest saga of a long-running dispute that dates back to the previous bin strikes in 2017-19 under this Labour Administration and shows yet again for all the promise of change, what you get with Labour is more of the same dysfunction and mismanagement.
Robert added
Coming on top of the Labour Administration’s previous 700 day plus bin dispute, their failure to get a grip with staff related issues has helped bring the Council to bankruptcy and now they have no plan for how to keep the streets clean. Only weeks ago saying there was no chance of a strike. Labour need to get a grip, fix the service and clean up the streets.
Cllr Ewan Mackey (Con, Sutton Roughley) commented
Given the Labour Council’s appalling track record on waste collections, with sky-high missed collection and rock-bottom recycling rates, it is tempting to say that residents may not notice that their bin crews are on strike when their bin is missed yet again. However, in reality we know from the previous strike what bad news this is for our city. Unless Labour can finally get a grip and resolve this once and for all, we are set for 12 weeks of waste pilling up on our streets and even more costs piled on to council tax-payers.
