Birmingham Socialist Party members
As we go to press, bin worker members of Unite in Birmingham have escalated their battle to all-out action.
As Unite national lead Onay Kasab told the press, the threat to cut wages by up to £8,000 is “abominable”.
Birmingham’s Labour council has voted through a further £148 million of cuts to local services. To do this they walked past a mass demonstration of bin workers, families from Harborne Day Centre, and others.
This is the consequence of over a decade of Tory austerity – with Birmingham losing £1 billion since 2010 – and council mismanagement. The Labour-controlled council carried out the Tories’ dirty work while saying it had no choice.
But now we have a Labour government and the savage cuts continue! Unelected Tory commissioners are still in the city and Birmingham assets and land are being sold off like a cash cow.
Birmingham Socialist Party says:
Bin workers lead the way – for coordinated strike action to defend jobs, pay and services. Bring together community campaign groups to protest with the workers on the picket lines
Build for a Saturday protest, called by the local trade union branches to mobilise their members and council staff. Use it to launch a mass campaign for council funding from central government
Starmer’s Labour doesn’t stand for us – organise for the 2026 Birmingham council elections. For trade unionists, socialists and community campaigners to stand their own anti-cuts worker candidates. We need a new mass workers’ party!
