AGENCY WORKERS TO JOIN PICKET IN CITY BINS DISPUTE

BIRMINGHAM agency bin workers will join a rally on the first day they join the long-running city strike next week.

- BEN PERRIN News Reporter

The group, employed by Job & Talent on the refuse contract, will join striking bin workers directly employed by Birmingham City Council on picket lines.

The agency workers voted in favour of strike action amid alleged “bullying, harassment and the threat of blacklisting” at the council's refuse department two weeks ago.

Unite the union said the number of agency workers joining the strike action was growing daily.

It said strikes over alleged fire and rehire pay cuts of up to £8,000 by directly-employed bin workers, which have been running since January, could continue beyond next May's local elections.

The directly-employed bin workers voted in favour of extending their industrial action mandate earlier this month.