Birmingham Bin Workers to Strike for Another Six Months
Binmen in Birmingham have voted to continue striking for six months, despite rubbish littering the city’s streets ever since the walkout began over a year ago in January 2025. The Telegraph has more.
The Midlands city has been left with rubbish littering its streets ever since refuse workers went on strike in January last year.
The industrial action was due to end in May but the binmen have now voted to continue striking for an additional four months until September.
The decision has provoked outrage in Birmingham, which has endured overflowing wheelie bins, fly-tipped waste and “rats the size of cats”.
Robert Alden, the Conservative leader of the opposition on Birmingham City Council, said the Labour-run authority had failed to bring an end to the strike.
“This extension of the strike to September is yet another damning indictment of Labour’s utter failure to lead,” he said.
“For over a year, we’ve seen rubbish pile up on our streets, rats running rampant, and Birmingham’s international reputation dragged into the gutter, all because Labour can’t manage their relationships with their union colleagues or balance the books without risking further equal pay disasters.”
The strike began in January 2025 and at the height of the industrial action more than 17,000 tonnes of waste were rotting in the streets of England’s second city. At one point, the Army was called in to advise on the public health risk.
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BinPEOPLE, Will!
Refuse Executives is also acceptable.
Bin laden, for sure.😬
I think it’s Cleansing Department Operatives… formerly, years ago, Night Shite-Shifters.
God Wills It!!!!
Racist! Cultural Appropriation! insha’Allah
Photo above – the Muzzies in the background. The piles of garbage in the foreground. Looks like _insert here a Moon Cult country__. Just like home for the Muhammadans.
I’m not really following this story so based on all the disgusting pictures I’m going to do a ‘Captain Obvious’: Why would people take their garbage bags from their houses and dump them straight on the street ( rinse – repeat ad infinitum) if they know there’s a strike and the trash isn’t going to be collected? Why would anyone have such disrespect for themselves, their neighbours and locality in general? You don’t get to complain about vermin when you’re the ones dumping the bloody crap that attracts them in the first place! Rats are just doing their ratty thing, no judgement here.🐀🤨
Wouldn’t you just take the garbage to the landfill yourselves or even burn it? It just takes a bit of organising and team effort ( everyone knows a man with a van or even a trailer ) but this has been going on for a year???🤯 Scummy neighbourhood, scummy people, as far as I’m concerned. Mingers.🤢
How are the binmen surviving without wages? They have been on strike for over twelve months and are proposing another eight. Something doesn’t add up here.
I was thinking the same. When you strike you don’t get paid, right? I’ve never been on strike so I just assumed…
Can you imagine Google maps pictures on Street View? Apparently Bradford just shows gardens and streets full of trash so B’MINGham is gonna look so appealing isn’t it?😨
Maybe being paid by the union
Yes. According to local reporting earlier in the dispute, Unite was paying workers around £70 per strike day (equivalent to about £350 a week if striking Monday–Friday) — this comes from the union’s strike fund funded by member subscriptions, not from the council or the employer.
Yup, makes no sense unless there is something we are not being told.
Beats me. Maybe not everyone is able but most will be.
This sort of scenario is where you see just how community-minded and capable of problem-solving people are. But it seems to me Birmingham is the place community spirit goes to die, because it should never ever have been allowed to get anywhere near this bad in the first place. Inconsiderate scumbags not taking responsibility for their own household waste. They’d rather pollute their own public spaces in their own neighbourhood with putrid, decomposing crap, strewn everywhere by the wind and the birds, rats and cats that tear the bags open.
I think it resembles Pakistan in more ways than one now. I bet many feel right at home, like they’re in Lahore or something. It soon becomes normalised. These gross people have neither shame nor dignity. Get your thinking caps on and work together to get it shifted. It’s not rocket science, honestly.
You have to have somewhere to take it… and if that’s council, it’s probably been hived off to the same people who are on strike to run it so they will likely be locks on the gates?
Possibly. I think where I live the waste place is directly council run not outsourced – it’s pretty new and it’s actually excellent.
A culture of “not my problem” fairly soon becomes everyone’s problem. Maybe they’re learning.
Organising and team effort, as you put it, may be a noble initiative… just so long as the Birmingham public are also boycotting their council tax payments.
Obviously, refuse management requires the use of industrial-scale equipment and infrastructure, especially in the second largest city in the UK. Take that away, and replace it with your “men with vans and trailers” and you might be able to remove, say, 10 per cent of the volume of rubbish produced by households.
The good folks of Birmingham have every right to dump there rubbish on the streets, 1-as a protest, and 2-because there’s nowhere else for it to go! Can you imagine how overwhelmed the local tips / recycling centres would get if every man and his dog were driving their household waste there themselves, with the long queues of cars and vans waiting to get in? Well thought through I must say!
“The good folks of Birmingham have every right to dump there rubbish on the streets, 1-as a protest, and 2-because there’s nowhere else for it to go!”
Would you be so supportive if you had to live amongst this revolting squalor? You’re seriously telling me there’s no possible alternative?? What a load of rubbish! ( 😳 )
Absolutely! But, they should also all get together and withhold a portion of their counsel tax; to make up for paying for a service they’re not getting.
No doubt this will not happen as they are quite happy to pollute the streets rather than taking responsibility for solving their own problems.
Import the 3rd world and you get third world standards.
Just google “pictures of rubbish in Pakistan.”
So, all those illegal immigrants, we know where to send them, let them see the land we are becoming, full of foreign ragheads and bags of shit.
I think dumping rubbish in the streets of Birmingham is an attempt by the tourism people to make the city more attractive to visitors
I think it might appeal to visitors from Haiti. I’d lock up your cats as a precaution, though.
The 3rd world has arrived, it should make some residents feel at home.
Yes, one only has to look at the places most of Birmingham’s people originate from to connect the dots… Pakistan, India and Bangladesh are not the way they are because of where they are, but because of who lives there… and they’re sending the best of them to enrich the West.
Guess what now? Just when we all thought that “Unite the Union” represented British workers, it turns out that it has been hiding a little secret: it is “Unite the Union” of Britain AND THE FOREIGN COUNTRY OF IRELAND. And both branches are led by Irish Marxist Harpies. The leader Sharon Graham is an Irish Catholic Communist activist, and the Communist leader in Ireland Susan Fitzgerald also appears to be on the Irish Catholic side, with the main conferences and offices located in THE FOREIGN COUNTRY OF IRELAND. Their goal is to drag the British nation of Northern Ireland into a merger with the FOREIGN COUNTRY OF IRELAND, using “Unite” strikes as a pretext, and they couldn’t care less about the suffering of the people of Birmingham during these disgusting strikes lasting more than a year, also supported by their large Muslim membership, because the mountains of hazardous waste is completely normal for Pakistani Muslims in Pakistan, and it helps DRIVE WHITE PEOPLE OUT OF BIRMINGHAM. It’s the Unholy Muslim-Marxist Alliance in operation again, this time Irish Catholic Marxists with Muslims, with the twin goals of driving White People out of Birmingham, and of the Hostile Foreign Country of Ireland… Read more »
Where are they getting the money to pay their bills if not at work.
Or maybe still getting paid but working from home?
Does this mean the bin workers stepped out of their holes and saw their shadows?