Andrew Vaux analyses both sides’ views on the ongoing Birmingham waste disposal strike as workers are balloted today on ...

Unite, which represents the striking workers, says some will be £8,000 a year worse off and claims bin lorry drivers will have their pay cut next. Unite said in a statement that the council had ...

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Birmingham City Council told us that the pay band for loaders - the most junior people working on a bin lorry - in Birmingham was £24,027 to £25,992 - that's about £11.50 to £12.50 an hour.

Every day seems to bring a new lie. A couple of the standard ones ... the pay cuts and since then the Council has said 200 bin lorry drivers will be served the same medicine.

Bin lorry drivers can earn more, up to around £33,000 or more, but any starting salary can vary because of experience, training or location. The WRCO role, which Unite are fighting to keep, is unique ...

Gordon is being asked to potentially learn a new position by his new defensive coordinator, Dennis Allen. This will be Kyler’s third defensive coordinator during his short stint here in the ...

Freight and cargo crime offences more than doubled in Suffolk in recent years, new police figures have shown ... The most likely way a lorry’s goods will be stolen is by thieves slashing ...

A Department of Homeland Security official on Monday compared Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant whom the Trump administration admitted it deported in error, to Osama bin Laden.

It’s all family there.” Bin lorry driver Derek Roberts, who has worked for Birmingham City Council for 33 years, has said the industrial action is being taken out of principle and none of his ...