Birmingham bin strike reaches six-month mark
‘What are the facts?’published at 08:36 British Summer Timepublished at 00:36
Professor Kathy Daniels, an employment law specialist from Aston University, said it was sad to hear how striking bin workers felt “they’ve been put into a corner”.
“One of the problems here is if there’s no negotiations happening, so how is the thing going to get resolved?” she said.
“I would have thought in this situation we need to go back to facts,” she added.
“If you read what is said by the council, and by the union, it’s two very different sets of facts,” she added.
The union claim about 170 affected workers face losing up to £8,000 a year because of the decision, but the council said the number of staff that could lose the maximum amount of just over £6,000 was 17 people.
“So what’s the truth?” added Prof Daniels.
“Because the way you resolve a situation that affects 17 people is very different to the way you resolve a situation that affects as many as 150 or 170.
“So I would have thought that the starting point would be to go back to the facts, and surely we can sit around a table and look at the facts and agree that, because that’s not a matter of opinion.”