{"id":269916,"date":"2025-03-30T02:32:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T02:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/birmingham-bin-strikes-government-urged-to-hold-cobra-meeting-over-dispute\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T02:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T02:32:05","slug":"birmingham-bin-strikes-government-urged-to-hold-cobra-meeting-over-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/birmingham-bin-strikes-government-urged-to-hold-cobra-meeting-over-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham bin strikes: Government urged to hold COBRA meeting over dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The government should hold an urgent COBRA meeting to deal with Birmingham’s ongoing bin strikes, the Conservatives say.<\/p>\n

The party has written a letter to Deputy Prime Minister and Communities Secretary Angela Rayne<\/strong><\/a>r, in which it also urged the government to send in private sector binmen.<\/p>\n

The long-running strike is continuing, with rubbish piling up<\/strong><\/a> on the city’s streets, despite talks aimed at ending the pay dispute.<\/p>\n

Members of the Unite<\/strong><\/a> union met with Birmingham<\/strong><\/a> City Council on Thursday, but the talks have so far failed.<\/p>\n

Unite says the dispute will not end unless the “hugely damaging” cuts to bin collectors’ wages are reversed.<\/p>\n

But Birmingham City Council says the aim of the restructuring is to create a “modern, sustainable and consistently reliable waste collection service”.<\/p>\n

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Shadow communities secretary Kevin Hollinrake and shadow Cabinet Office minister Alex Burghart have called on the government to hold a COBRA meeting to respond to the dispute.<\/p>\n

The Tories said the meeting would “ensure that there is a co-ordinated response between national and local government”.<\/p>\n

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The government sent in commissioners to oversee Birmingham City Council after it effectively declared bankruptcy in 2023.<\/p>\n

In their letter, Mr Hollinrake and Mr Burghart also said the commissioners should “cut the pay of local councillors and redistribute the funding to local services”.<\/p>\n

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Last week, environment minister Mary Creagh told the House of Commons that resolving the strikes was a “matter [for] the council”.<\/p>\n

She added that both parties needed to “sort this out for the benefit of the people of Birmingham”.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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