Alleged cuts in refuse collection spark strike

27 September 2007

GMB members employed by Accord, under Islington borough’s household domestic refuse contract, went on strike last week, following ‘cuts in refuse rounds that reduced workers’ take-home pay’.

GMB organiser, Gary Carter, said members would ‘not blithely accept a cut in residents’ refuse service, or their own pay and conditions’, following Islington council’s reorganisation of collections. The shake-up means refuse, green box recycling, kitchen waste and garden waste are now all collected on the same day.

As Surveyor went to press, GMB was planning a further action.

But Cllr Lucy Watt, Islington’s executive member for the environment, said the strikes were ‘indefensible’. While the contractor Islington Cleansing Services had reduced rubbish collections by one round, ‘the new, improved collections’ had led to 20 new jobs being created, and ‘no changes to pay or conditions’.

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