The ongoing Birmingham bin crisis is “entirely attributable” to the “dreadful Labour administration,” the Shadow Cabinet member for finance at the City Council.
Brimingham residents are living amongst 20,000 tonnes of rubbish which is growing.
Councillor Meirion Jenkins told GB News at the heart of the bin strikes in Brimingham is £760 million of debt and the ongoing strikes could see an increase of £14 million per month.
Jenkins said, “It’s a dreadful situation. There were 21,000 tons of rubbish left on the streets, although the council claims that some of this is being collected by crews that are being brought in from neighbouring councils.
“It’s entirely attributable to the dreadful Labour administration that we have in Birmingham.”
Speaking about the 2017 bin strikes, Labour introduced an intermediary pay grade for bin workers.
“At the time, we said that this will cause an equal pay dispute in due course, and sure enough roll forward eight years we have professionally estimated liability for equal pay of £760million,” Jenkins said.
“The problem dates right back to legislation from the Blair era, which meant that you could compare workers who were doing quite different jobs,” Jenkins added to GB News.
He said that Birmingham City Council “need to implement a proper grading scheme, which they were supposed to do by March 25.”
He added, “The bin men [are] on strike because the council, in order to remove the equal pay liability, are having to take away that intermediary grade three that they should never have given them in 2017.”
