Bin men on strike

Guest2 · 26 Sep 2009 at 13:38

Not sure about anywhere else but in Leeds they are on strike. The bins are full/overflowing in quite a few places and it stinks.

Can the government give jobs to people who are unemployed that actually want to work? (any people on strike) My mate is at home unemployed and wants a job and would love to empty a few bins for 5 or 6 quid an hour

Firegod · 26 Sep 2009 at 13:49

To be fair, that's not a bad idea. All these people that strike (i.e public sector workers) just go "fine, see you later" and then get the unemployed that want to work and are struggling, looking for jobs, in. Happy days.

Do you know why they are on strike? Did one of them break a finger nail lifting something they were not meant to?

I mean come on, wheel the bin to the truck, press a button, wheel the bin back.

da_mic_1530 · 26 Sep 2009 at 13:49

Live in Leeds also, bins STILL haven't been emptied, beyond a joke

For anyone in the dark on the matter, bin men are on strike over the council knocking 6 grand from their wage then offering it back in bonus for (IIRC)

something daft already!! · 26 Sep 2009 at 13:50

Sounds like a load of rubbish to me.

Someone had to.

mac1st3 · 26 Sep 2009 at 13:51

howiepoohs said:
Sounds like a load of rubbish to me.

Someone had to.

that stinks

xb8browney · 26 Sep 2009 at 13:54

mac1st3 said:
that stinks

Two wrongs don't make a right

Jokester · 26 Sep 2009 at 13:54

da_mic_1530 said:
For anyone in the dark on the matter, bin men are on strike over the council knocking 6 grand from their wage then offering it back in bonus for (IIRC)

Yeah, it's something like that, though tbh, I can't see how you can knock £6k of someones job when they should surely be minimum wage already?

Anyway, apparently they got a private contractor in to do the bins in one place and the contractors were going along to the picket lines with wads of cash and doing a "loadsamoney".

Brilliant.

xb8browney · 26 Sep 2009 at 13:55

a lot of bin men have second jobs mostly taxi drivers

(Could just be my area though)

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 13:56

yeah they got contractors in, in Bristol when they were on strike.

It's a good reason they are striking then. 6k Must be over 1/3rd of their wage surly.

xb8browney said:
a lot of bin men have second jobs mostly taxi drivers

(Could just be my area though)

and?

OpenToSuggestions · 26 Sep 2009 at 13:57

xb8browney said:
Two wrongs don't make a right

Two Right's made an airoplane though.

xb8browney · 26 Sep 2009 at 13:58

AcidHell2 said:
yeah they got contractors in, in Bristol when they were on strike.

It's a good reason they are striking then. 6k Must be over 1/3rd of their wage surly.

and?

Well it looks like from above posts they get the £6 back in the form of a bonus?

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 13:59

xb8browney said:
Well it looks like from above posts they get the £6 back in the form of a bonus?

might get it back. Certainly not guaranteed. All depends what the bonus is set to and how realistic the targets are.

xb8browney · 26 Sep 2009 at 13:59

mglover070588 said:
Two Right's made an airoplane though.

That was rubbish.

Recycled that joke

OpenToSuggestions · 26 Sep 2009 at 14:00

What's the salary of a bin man these days?

iirc they get paid quite well.

OpenToSuggestions · 26 Sep 2009 at 14:00

xb8browney said:
That was rubbish.

Recycled that joke

xb8browney · 26 Sep 2009 at 14:00

AcidHell2 said:
might get it back. Certainly not guaranteed. All depends what the bonus is set to and how realistic the targets are.

True.

There was a program on about 2 weeks ago were by they report people who don't recycle properly. So perhaps this is part of the target.

Glaucus · 26 Sep 2009 at 14:01

mglover070588 said:
What's the salary of a bin man these days?

iirc they get paid quite well.

13k

NORTH Lincolnshire Council has been inundated with 260 applications for a position as a binman.

Normally about 70 people apply for the £13,000 position but soaring unemployment in region has created a surge of applications

So I totally support the bin men in this. That is ridiculous trying to take almost half there pay.

something daft already!! · 26 Sep 2009 at 14:02

mglover070588 said:
What's the salary of a bin man these days?

iirc they get paid quite well.

Not these days they don't, they are fairly low paid.

Indy500 · 26 Sep 2009 at 14:11

mglover070588 said:
What's the salary of a bin man these days?

iirc they get paid quite well.

Adverts on JCP suggest between £6.50 -> £9.50 an hour depending on the exact nature of the contract. The £9.50 would be for temporary assignments at a recycling centre dealing with high volumes for example.

singist · 26 Sep 2009 at 15:03

Listening to all the stuff on the local radio, it seems that they get paid around £18k at the moment and are being offered £17k inc bonuses etc which is not quite the "slashing pay by 6 grand" that the unions would have us believe.

As a side note, I have to smile that all the students (who pay zero council tax) are up in arms that their bins have not been emptied, given the absolute **** tip that they create in Headingley and Hyde Park almost every night.