Birmingham depot where lorries delayed again by striking bin workers
The refuse collectors have been on the picket line at the Atlas Depot in Tyseley on Thursday (July 24) morning affecting the number of dustcarts which have been able to get out.
Birmingham City Council has said this may affect the number of bin collections it can make in the centre and east of the city.
Read more: Costs of the bin strike exposed
Areas served by the Atlas depot include the city centre, the Jewellery Quarter and Soho, Newtown and Nechells, Moseley, down to Hall Green, up to Ward End, Bromford and Hodge Hill and across to Sheldon, and Shard End.
In a post on X, the city council said: 'Due to actions on the picket line there are delays in waste wagons leaving our Atlas depot this AM.
'This may affect the number of collections we are able to make from this depot.
'If today is your collection day, leave bins out we will collect them asap.'
An injunction had been in place which appeared to have stopped striking bin workers delay bin trucks from leaving depots.
But the council confirmed delays had started again last week and have continued this week.
West Midlands Police had been intervening to stop the blockades of bin depots but has now eased back on that intervention following a Court of Appeal decision in May found police powers to restrict protests were 'unlawful'.
The decision set a higher threshold to what amounts to 'serious public disorder, serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community' under the Public Order Act.
A West Midlands Police spokesperson asked why it was not stopping lorries being delayed said: 'We continue to have a policing presence at sites across Birmingham as and when required as a result of the current industrial action.
'We attend to deal with any breach of the peace and to ensure any crimes are investigated accordingly.
'We continue to assess the situation and ensure our presence at the sites is in line with our core policing responsibilities.'
And a Unite spokesperson said: 'Our members, as always, are engaged in peaceful and lawful picketing.'
The long-running bin strike began in January and went to an all out strike in March with Unite the Union members striking over the council's plans to remove 170 Waste Recycling and Collections Officer roles.
This week the total cost of agency workers who are carrying out bin collections while Unite members strike, has been almost £8 million.
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The council is looking to limit the number of higher paid roles to stave off multi-million-pound equal pay claims if those roles continue.
Unite say their members are being asked to forfeit £8,000 in wages – and they are therefore striking.
In April some 200 drivers, mainly men, were told they too faced pay cuts as part of the equal-pay review, with drivers set to be downgraded from the Grade 4 paygrade to Grade 3 – a lower level.
And earlier this month the council announced some 130 workers – all senior drivers – are now at risk of redundancy.
The strike shows no signs of abating with residents facing continuing missed collections, no green collections service all year and no recycling either.

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