Union leaders across Labour spectrum, as well as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, put Watson in his place – on the irrelevant fringe Tom Watson’s desperate, illogical attempt to disrupt Labour’s […]
Industrial action ends after Birmingham City Council bows to Unite’s demand for fair treatment for its members and for agency workers The long running Birmingham bins dispute over ‘secret payments’ […]
Court action begins today in the dispute between unions and Birmingham City Council over the council’s continued failure to correct its actions after Acas mediation talks break down Unite and […]
Chief Whip of Birmingham City Council’s controlling Labour group resigns in protest at the council’s anti-union behaviour Kerry Jenkins, the Chief Whip of Birmingham City Council’s (BCC) Labour group – […]
The SKWAWKBOX has covered at length the abysmal behaviour of Birmingham City Council (BCC) – over a period of a year and a half and still ongoing – toward its […]
Dispute over Birmingham’s refuse collection services takes bizarre turn as council stretches credulity in attempt to use Thatcher-era anti-union laws to block strike over discriminatory payments The twists and turns […]
Last Friday, all Birmingham City Council (BCC) Labour councillors received a set of emails from Majid Mahmood, their colleague who had resigned only days earlier as cabinet member for waste […]
Birmingham City Council (BCC) is embroiled in a dispute with the Unite and Unison unions over BCC’s extra payment to GMB members among its refuse collectors who did not participate […]
Refuse collectors in Birmingham successfully took industrial action in 2017 after Birmingham City Council (BCC) reneged on a pay agreement and tried to coerce workers into backing down with a threat […]
Shipyard workers and their unions have achieved a major victory in their fight to prevent hundreds of redundancies at the Cammell Laird shipyard on Merseyside. In a meeting this afternoon […]