Birmingham: Locals share their concerns over the bin strikes
Angela Rayner has had her membership of a major trade union suspended in a row over the Birmingham bin strikes. Unite, which is Labour's biggest union supporter, could also cut ties with Sir Keir Starmer's party.
The move follows an emergency motion passed at the union's policy conference in Brighton today. General secretary Sharon Graham said: “Unite is crystal clear it will call out bad employers regardless of the colour of their rosette. Angela Rayner has had every opportunity to intervene and resolve this dispute but has instead backed a rogue council that has peddled lies and smeared its workers fighting huge pay cuts.
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“The disgraceful actions of the government and a so-called Labour council, is essentially fire and rehire and makes a joke of the Employment Relations Act promises.
“People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer not workers.
It comes as rubbish has been piling up across Birmingham since bin workers walked out around six months ago in a bitter dispute over pay.
A source close to Ms Rayner, who is Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary, said she had already resigned membership of the union some months ago.
But Unite said she was still listed as an active member on Friday.
The Birmingham bin strikes has surpassed the six-month mark (Image: Getty)
The motion, which was voted on by 800 delegates, condemned Labour-run Birmingham City Council for "its threat to effectively fire and rehire, on pain of redundancy, the Unite Birmingham bin workers”.
It also blasted the Government for its “support to the council and the commissioners, originally appointed by the Tories and maintained by Labour".
Ms Rayner, Birmingham Council leader John Cotton and other Labour councillors have been suspended for “bringing the union into disrepute”.
This will be followed by an investigation with a “view to expelling them from the union.”
Shadow Local Government Secretary Kevin Hollinrake said: “Angela Rayner faces a serious conflict of interest, having accepted thousands of pounds from the Unite union to fund her general election campaign.
"Unions like Unite rarely offer financial support without expecting something in return — and we’re already seeing the consequences in their aggressive demands to dismantle key trade union laws.
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“It’s time for all Labour ministers and the Labour-led council to take a firm stand against these militant unions. A good place to start would be suspending taxpayer-funded ‘facility time’ for Unite while their members are on strike.”
A Labour source said: “Angela’s not interested in silly stunts, she’s interested in changing workers’ lives. Unite rejected a deal in Birmingham and their demands would have undermined equal pay, discriminating against female workers. Angela won’t be pushed around, and she quit Unite some months ago.
“Angela’s been fighting for equal pay for decades as a trade unionist and as a home care worker has experienced what it was like to be paid less as a working class woman for the same work.”
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