There have been several scams over the decades, which put the council into bankruptcy. A Union isn’t going to ever accept a potential paycut, so they are stuck.
Waste collection doesn’t want to be scheduled for the full 32 hours they are contracted so they can collect the overtime, and the council don’t want to pay overtime for people working their normal hours. The only thing the council can do is cut the folks being paid the most, but the Union won’t let that happen either.
Just increase council tax in Birmingham and separate out the waste disposal as a line item so that the people can see where their money is going.
Its been ongoing in Birmingham for a long time.
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There have been several scams over the decades, which put the council into bankruptcy. A Union isn’t going to ever accept a potential paycut, so they are stuck.
Waste collection doesn’t want to be scheduled for the full 32 hours they are contracted so they can collect the overtime, and the council don’t want to pay overtime for people working their normal hours. The only thing the council can do is cut the folks being paid the most, but the Union won’t let that happen either.
Just increase council tax in Birmingham and separate out the waste disposal as a line item so that the people can see where their money is going.