Bin collections in Redbridge are being hit by a one-week strike starting today (Monday). The council is however asking people to put out their black bins in the hope they can collected at some point in the week. But recycling, bulky waste, and green garden waste collections are suspended until next week.
The strike has been called by Unite the Union for workers at Redbridge Civic Services, the council-owned waste collection company. The dispute is about working conditions and pay.
Unless a resolution is reached there is the possibility of waste going uncollected by polling day, which will remind some of 1979 when a wave of strikes and scenes of piled-up rubbish was the background to that year’s general election.
That is a first! A strike already ! A sign of things to come!
OR PERHAPS A SIGN OF THE UNPRECEDENTED DISRUPTION WE HAVE SUFFERED IN THE LAST FEW YEARS WITH NURSES AND DOCTORS ON STRIKE, NOT TO MENTION RAIL SERVICES
So many strikes with the current government. Thank heavens it’s going on Thursday and we have a chance to get a new government that manages less incompetently.
Remember the ‘winter of discontent?’ Seem to remember that was under a Labour government.
Good luck to those workers who are being badly treated.by Redbridge Council. They have every right to withdraw their labour.
Do Redbridge Council “employ” bin collectors or is it not outsourced to another organisation?