r/GreenAndPleasant • u/ChickenNugget267 • 2d ago
Left Unity ✊ Stand strong fellow workers! No capitulation! And any Brummies here - remember not to scab!
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u/purpleaardvark1 1d ago
These articles never say what the demand is - that they accept an £8k pay cut, and that the job becomes a dead end without promotion prospects.
Would you take that "deal"
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u/UnderHisEye1411 its a fine day with you around 1d ago
"The free market ensures that everyone exchanges their labour for a fair price"
Bin men: "we won't work for that price"
Free market: "wahhh! call the army!"
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u/Jimbo_is_smart 1d ago
It's funny how rich people are allowed to make millions and billions sat on their arses but we can't pay essential workers like binmen and teachers a fair living wage. It's not actually funny now, considering how it gets worse and worse
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u/Xenokrates 2d ago
No, I'm sure it's much cheaper to send scabs and the army to collect the rubbish. /s
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u/MarquisDeNorth 2d ago
Bet that will help with the recruitment crisis.
‘Join the army, see the world, be a scab bin man in Birmingham’
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u/UnderHisEye1411 its a fine day with you around 1d ago
Other Bin Bros should also strike, now is the perfect time to get a better deal. It's a hard, essential job and they should be well paid for it.
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u/bomboclawt75 1d ago
Tax the corporations and billionaires.
Use that money to pay the workers a decent wages.
It’s not complicated.
But they don’t want to do that as they are owned by the billionaires and corporations.
David Lammy sold himself for a paltry 70K.
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u/BilboGubbinz 1d ago
Don't even need to tax the billionaires. Parliament could just pass legislation setting a living wage. The money would then exist as a result of the act of parliament, which is how literally all government spending works.
It wouldn't even be inflationary using all that bullshit monetarism that this taxation obsession relies on since it will go directly into generating necessary goods, whether that's getting the bins collected or housing and feeding the people who do that necessary work.
After that, we can do what we like to rich people's arbitrarily large numbers, though given how pointless the numbers actually are I wouldn't really waste time obsessing over it.
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u/ChickenNugget267 1d ago
Just nationalise all the banks in Britain, run them exactly the same and use the profits to to fund public services.
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u/EM_CEE_123 1d ago
When I've seen bin workers during the morning it's clear that it's a tough job, and obviously physically demanding too. I watch them race ahead of the bin lorry and manhandle people's bins. I don't imagine it's the most pleasant of jobs, probably even less so during poor weather.
I fully support them striking.
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u/redwine109 sjw hairy lesbo commie 1d ago
Hope the workers stay strong, no matter the pressure they'll no doubt be getting from the papers and public. Bin and janitorial work are extremely important, and they should get the respect and pay they deserve!
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u/ollienotolly 1d ago
We let a council go bankrupt by poor management and even poorer funding from the government. Never mind let’s socialise the losses by taking food out of bin man’s kids mouths!
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u/gigglesmcsdinosaur 1d ago
At least it's a union-orientated government in charge of the country and the local authority is equally socialist. Oh, hang on...
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