90% would not accept bins pay cut - union poll

AROUND 90% of Brummies would not accept the Birmingham bin worker-style pay cuts, according to a poll commissioned by the union at the centre of the dispute.

- BEN PERRIN

Two thirds (65%) said they would go on strike if their employer tried to impose similar pay cuts on them, a survey by Find Out Now found.

The poll involved 900 people.

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: "As this polling shows, the people of Birmingham understand very well why bin workers are on strike and would do the same thing in their shoes.

"The sheer size of the cuts the council wants to impose on the bin workers is unreasonable in anybody's book.