Binmen strike for longer and the odd binwomen

[North Cardiff Blue]

Great so while crawling around Cardiff at 20mph, you'll get a lovely odour of bins, and can play fly-tipping and rat spotting!

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/more-disruption-waste-collection-cardiff-27701982

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Use this to check when yours will be collected as it will be all over the place for a while - https://www.cardiff.gov.uk/ENG/resid...s/default.aspx

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Great so while crawling around Cardiff at 20mph, you'll get a lovely odour of bins, and can play fly-tipping and rat spotting!

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...rdiff-27701982

Do you approve of this continual austerity for our public service workers?

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Do you approve of this continual austerity for our public service workers?

I don't think about it?

I believe in unions and taking a stand against bad employers.

A bin strike is bad news though.

[Canton Kev]

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I don't think about it?

Well now it’s impacting you and you are thinking about it. Seems like the strike is doing part of what it’s supposed to.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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Well now it’s impacting you and you are thinking about it. Seems like the strike is doing part of what it’s supposed to.

A lot of areas of the UK use private refuse collectors because - like Cardiff - the service is f****g useless.

[jon1959]

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A lot of areas of the UK use private refuse collectors because - like Cardiff - the service is f****g useless.

F****g useless with the private contractor or the in-house? (You need another *)

In Sheffield the bin collection service was privatised (outsourced) in 2001. It was pretty good with the in-house service before; it has been pretty good under the private contractor Amey since. Both have had (rare) strikes.

Amey provide a cheaper service to the Council partly because they reduced terms and conditions for new starters after they won the contract. There are some 'bells and whistles' sweeteners in the deal for the Council, some economies of scale by the company (part of a massive conglomerate and now private equity owned), and some loss of public money into private dividends and executive salaries.

Amey also won the 25 year Streets Ahead road maintenance (plus verges and trees) £2bn contract in 2012 - so have their hands on most of the visible Council 'works' services - although not council home maintenance. I am not impressed with their highways work.

Mixed picture - but not a clear argument for privatisation of public services!

[goats]

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Great so while crawling around Cardiff at 20mph, you'll get a lovely odour of bins, and can play fly-tipping and rat spotting!

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...rdiff-27701982

Such a wonderful place at the moment…..

[bobh]

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Use this to check when yours will be collected as it will be all over the place for a while - https://www.cardiff.gov.uk/ENG/resid...s/default.aspx

Last week I checked that site and it said my food waste, green bags and garden waste would be collected the next day, so I (and the rest of the street) put them all out.
On the next day (normall collection day) everything was cancelled apart from food waste, so it all had to be brought back in.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Do you approve of this continual austerity for our public service workers?

Not sure a bin strike works though, You don't get paid for two weeks, and when you get back you collect a month's worth of smelly bin rubbish instead of two weeks?

Stop overtime so there is no benefit just work faster to catch up.

They may be better just negotiating.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Last week I checked that site and it said my food waste, green bags and garden waste would be collected the next day, so I (and the rest of the street) put them all out.
On the next day (normall collection day) everything was cancelled apart from food waste, so it all had to be brought back in.

Yes sign up for the email, that seems more up to date, but with a strike, there are still going to be mistakes like that until the backlog has cleared probably November.

[BLUETIT]

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Years ago (yes I’m off reminiscing again ), we had the same binmen every week, you got to know their first names and every week you knew that your bins were collected, there was no mess left outside your houses and at the end of the year you gave them a Christmas bonus (money or pressie)

These days, I don’t think we’ve had the same bin collectors twice, it’s normally some youngsters who don’t give a toss about the mess they leave behind them, no respect for the job or the streets that they serve.

How can they seriously ask for more money, when they are not doing the job asked of them properly now

RANT OVER, apart from, They Got No Respect for the job

[poc]

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Years ago (yes I’m off reminiscing again ), we had the same binmen every week, you got to know their first names and every week you knew that your bins were collected, there was no mess left outside your houses and at the end of the year you gave them a Christmas bonus (money or pressie)

These days, I don’t think we’ve had the same bin collectors twice, it’s normally some youngsters who don’t give a toss about the mess they leave behind them, no respect for the job or the streets that they serve.

How can they seriously ask for more money, when they are not doing the job asked of them properly now

RANT OVER, apart from, They Got No Respect for the job

wouldnt say its a rant you are correct ,when one of the crew go on holiday with us i get missed because the others cant be bothered to walk 30 yards

[poc]

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[A Quiet Monkfish]

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F****g useless with the private contractor or the in-house? (You need another *)

In Sheffield the bin collection service was privatised (outsourced) in 2001. It was pretty good with the in-house service before; it has been pretty good under the private contractor Amey since. Both have had (rare) strikes.

Amey provide a cheaper service to the Council partly because they reduced terms and conditions for new starters after they won the contract. There are some 'bells and whistles' sweeteners in the deal for the Council, some economies of scale by the company (part of a massive conglomerate and now private equity owned), and some loss of public money into private dividends and executive salaries.

Amey also won the 25 year Streets Ahead road maintenance (plus verges and trees) £2bn contract in 2012 - so have their hands on most of the visible Council 'works' services - although not council home maintenance. I am not impressed with their highways work.

Mixed picture - but not a clear argument for privatisation of public services!

It's more to do with the frequency/limits/restriction etc. In parts of N.Wales some collections have become monthly. My son in Herts. has 3 large bins each of which are collected weekly. Accepted a better-off L.A. but that can't wholly account for the huge difference in service levels.