Running time: 3 mins 38 secs
Hundreds of trade unionists swarmed to Birmingham for Megapicket 3 in support of striking binworkers facing paycuts of £8K a year – and shut down all the depots yet again.
Meanwhile, supporters who have been causing chaos all week blockading depots were up very early in the morning to stop the council pulling a fast one by shifting wagons to a bus depot and trying to get them out from there.
With street cleaners now extremely angry as well, and concerned they might be downgraded too, the pressure has built enormously on the council this week – and the binworkers have been given a huge moral boost.
Birmingham City Council: all it takes to stop all this is to come to the table and negotiate, something you have refused to do for over six months now. The binworkers are ready; John Cotton, where are you?
