Rayner in deepening row with union over Birmingham bin strikes
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Unite announced earlier it had suspended her membership over the long-running dispute in Birmingham.

Unite has announced it has suspended Angela Rayner from her membership of the union, in an escalating row over the long-running bin strikes in Birmingham.

The deputy prime minister has been urging striking bin workers to accept a deal to end the dispute tabled by the Labour-run city council.

In an emergency motion at its conference in Brighton, the union said it would also re-examine its relationship with Labour if the council makes any of its members redundant.
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A spokesperson for Rayner said she is no longer a member of the union - although Unite is insisting that she is on its membership system.

Unite is affiliated to Labour, and is the party’s biggest union funder.

It did not donate to the party’s election campaign last year, but made donations worth £10,000 towards Rayner’s campaign, according to her register of interests.

Members of the union walked out in January over plans to downgrade some roles as part of the city council’s attempts to sort out its equal pay liabilities.

An all-out indefinite strike was announced in March, and a deal to end industrial action has not yet been reached.

They also suspended Birmingham Council leader John Cotton.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
    31·
    13 hours ago

    Great well done, so everyone’s wrong and you’ve “both sided” this.

    Meanwhile in the real world the truth is the council tried to cut people’s jobs because of a technicality. Not because they couldn’t afford to pay them, but because it was the easiest way for them to tick a box.

    Everyone’s equally to blame, sure.

    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
      14·
      11 hours ago

      Me trying to see both sides of a complex matter.

      Great well done, so everyone’s wrong and you’ve “both sided” this.

      FML. 🥲

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        21·
        9 hours ago

        You’re equating the council bigwigs fiddling with finances for technicality reasons with people who are only trying to advocate for fair financial compensation.

        Not really the same thing

        • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
          11·
          6 hours ago

          You’re equating the council bigwigs fiddling with finances for technicality reasons with people who are only trying to advocate for fair financial compensation

          No, you’ve misunderstood completely what I’m saying and are making assumptions. Are you able to point to where I am equating the two sides like you claim?

          Would it help you if I reiterated the following:

          • The council’s position is not automatically in the right simply because they’re the council.
          • The union’s position is not automatically in the right simply because they’re the unions.
          • The people of Birmingham are living a sanitary and health nightmare right now.
          • With the deadlock from both sides nobody is winning or happy.

          So is Rayner’s stance unreasonable given this? And it’s all right if the answer is no but I’d like to understand why. That’s my position. Not something you’ve dreamt up.