Back bin workers this Saturday

Striking bin workers across Birmingham say that they want to go back to work, but this can?t happen without talks. So add your voice to the growing number of people backing the bin workers and join the rally on Saturday.?

Workers and supporters marching through the centre of Birmingham on Saturday (20 Sept) to demand Birmingham City Council returns to negotiations.

Supporters are being asked to assemble at 9.30 at the Unite the union offices on Jennens Road (Birmingham, B7 4EH), and ready to set off at 10.00 where they will march to Victoria Square.

The striking workers will be joined by Unite general secretary Sharon Graham along with Unite colleagues and trade union supporters from across the country.?

Penny Robbins, a bin worker at the city’s Perry Barr depot encouraged everyone to attend, saying, ?Please, please, please come. The support will be amazing, we?ve been supported throughout all of this, so please, if you can make it it would be fabulous. Thank you!??

Over the summer bin workers have been taking their call for support and solidarity across the country, and in July bin striker Matt Reid, addressed crowds at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival where he told cheering festival goers that, ?We are here to remember those six brave men who stood against injustice in 1834, and to remind the world that the spirit of Tolpuddle lives on in 2025.?

?Right now that spirit is alive in Birmingham in the depots and on the picket lines in our own fight against injustice.?

And only last week striking bin workers attended TUC Congress, where they received warm welcomes and support at a number of fringe meetings where they spoke to explain the situation to delegates.?

More details about the rally for Birmingham bin workers on 20 September can be found here.?

By Keith Hatch