Binmen going on another 3 day strike

[Chicken Run]

Jolly good. In favour of democratic strike action then, just not putting your hand in your pocket

100% on a 79% turnout seems very democratic though. Are you saying there's something wrong with a union legally and democratically voting for a strike? Unless, of course, there was some thug well known for threatening to "bang people out" influencing the members.

Are you suggesting there’s a bully boy down at Hollingdean then we’ll known for threatening people with violence in order to influence their vote?


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[Guinness Boy]

Are you suggesting there’s a bully boy down at Hollingdean then we’ll known for threatening people with violence in order to influence their vote?


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No, I’m suggesting that you’re well known for being in the Bear Pit and positing that democratic votes should be respected, and for teaming up down there with a Union member and keen striker who once posted that he’d threatened to bang someone out on a picket line.

So therefore quite the hypocrite [emoji106]


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[Chicken Run]

No, I’m suggesting that you’re well known for being in the Bear Pit and positing that democratic votes should be respected, and for teaming up down there with a Union member and keen striker who once posted that he’d threatened to bang someone out on a picket line.

So therefore quite the hypocrite [emoji106]


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Well thank you for clearing that up [emoji106]


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[Lenny Rider]

Apologies if already covered, can't do 9 pages this morning, but does anyone know how much a Brighton City Council bin man earns please?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The strike action comes on the back of delays to refuse and recycling collections over the past weeks which the council said was as a result of staff shortages due to Covid, difficulty in recruiting, a national shortage of HGV drivers and problems getting vehicle parts when bin lorries break down due to Brexit”

I know and feel their pain; Brewdog Mitte had problems with a spare part for their fryer; it was stuck in customs and I was without chicken wings for many weeks.

I therefore stand shoulder to shoulder with my fellow comrades on the bins.

 

[Weststander]

Apologies if already covered, can't do 9 pages this morning, but does anyone know how much a Brighton City Council bin man earns please?

Genuinely, as our neighbour of 15 years is a BHCC bin-man, the hours are 7 til 1:30, Monday to Friday.

 

[Dave the hatosaurus]

Apologies if already covered, can't do 9 pages this morning, but does anyone know how much a Brighton City Council bin man earns please?

No idea but willing to bet it is more than myself or a care worker but much less than an MP or a footballer !
It is a job i for one would not do - dirty AND physical - no way !

 

[herecomesaregular]

The 4 big communal bins outside my home haven't been emptied for 2 1/2 weeks already. Bags ripped open all around them and food and nappies everywhere. I've tried to tidy it once and move bags into other bins but it's hopeless. Half the drivers don't attempt to come up the small access road here, some drivers have smashed into the side walls knocking it over numerous times but they deny liability (not seen just heard) and the freeholder has had to repair it. This area did nice food boxes for the binmen in the first lockdown. Lived in this flat for 15 years and always been an issue. I won't be contributing again to any future parcels for the binmen and i'm rapidly turning into a one-policy voter for BHCC - sort out this mess that has passed from Labour to Tory to Greens and all ways back again without resolution for decades. Meanwhile, in Mid Sussex and East Sussex my siblings and parents have no issues at all with refuse collection and recycling.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Whilst my post was a tad tongue-in-cheek would you really want to do it?! Luckily there are people out there who don't have the choices some of us have!

Yes I would do it, unequivocally yes.

Looks like you're in luck

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Genuinely, as our neighbour of 15 years is a BHCC bin-man, the hours are 7 til 1:30, Monday to Friday.

I wonder what plans are in place for retaining their HGV drivers as I understand that's a problem as well as getting binmen. Can't imagine why

 

[BBassic]

Interesting read in the Guardian yesterday about how supermarkets are poaching bin lorry drivers to replace the workforce that went back to Europe. Leading to all sorts of unpleasantness around the country in terms of uncollected bins.

 

[Weststander]

Interesting read in the Guardian yesterday about how supermarkets are poaching bin lorry drivers to replace the workforce that went back to Europe. Leading to all sorts of unpleasantness around the country in terms of uncollected bins.

That’s garbage.

 

[el punal]

The 4 big communal bins outside my home haven't been emptied for 2 1/2 weeks already. Bags ripped open all around them and food and nappies everywhere. I've tried to tidy it once and move bags into other bins but it's hopeless. Half the drivers don't attempt to come up the small access road here, some drivers have smashed into the side walls knocking it over numerous times but they deny liability (not seen just heard) and the freeholder has had to repair it. This area did nice food boxes for the binmen in the first lockdown. Lived in this flat for 15 years and always been an issue. I won't be contributing again to any future parcels for the binmen and i'm rapidly turning into a one-policy voter for BHCC - sort out this mess that has passed from Labour to Tory to Greens and all ways back again without resolution for decades. Meanwhile, in Mid Sussex and East Sussex my siblings and parents have no issues at all with refuse collection and recycling.

No real problems down here in Southampton-sur-le snooze. Apart from delays in glass recycling collection, down to staff shortages, everything on the rubbish front is ticketty boo. It seems to me, from my visits to Brighton, that rubbish and general crapiness is prevalent and needs to be top of the agenda for BHCC to sort out - or is that too mundane for them to care about?

 

[Bry Nylon]

Nineteen grand doesn’t seem too shabby for one day a week?

 

[WATFORD zero]

I’m really surprised.

They normally pick hot summers, so that rats and microbes ferment nice odours.

I believe that to normally be the case.

I wouldn't like to comment on the details of this particular case in question, but from what I can ascertain from news channels recently, it appears that the current situation is the perfect time for low and unskilled workers to seek to increase their remuneration due to some kind of shortage. So whether they have a case or not, their timing certainly seems correct

 

[Weststander]

Nineteen grand doesn’t seem too shabby for one day a week?

Vicars work longer hours.

 

[Machiavelli]

I suspect that there will be increased strike activity over the next few years. Inflation is currently high, unemployment low, job vacancies growing, and many like me have endured twelve consecutive years of real term pay cuts

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

I suspect that there will be increased strike activity over the next few years. Inflation is currently high, unemployment low, job vacancies growing, and many like me have endured twelve consecutive years of real term pay cuts

I agree and broadly it's a good thing if wages increase. Though i'd rather see wealthy profit making companies targeted by strike action rather than completely broke councils.

 

[zefarelly]

except the councils sold off the services to private companies . . . . at least ours did

 

[Simster]

Nineteen grand doesn’t seem too shabby for one day a week?

I'm confused. I thought it was £19k for 5 days a week, 7am til 1.30pm?

If I'm right, that doesn't seem all that generous for a shitty manual job even if they do only work 32.5 hours a week.

 

[Weststander]

I agree and broadly it's a good thing if wages increase. Though i'd rather see wealthy profit making companies targeted by strike action rather than completely broke councils.

Veolia here.