Rayner ‘will not be pushed’ by Unite after the voices of Union to suspend her | Work

Angela Rayner has said that she will not be “pushed” by the Trade Union after it has voted to suspend her membership and reconsider her ties with the party.

The Deputy Prime Minister was censored by the Union about her role in the Birmingham Bin Strike, although party sources said that Rayner resigned her membership of Unite a few months ago.

The motion adopted at the Unite policy conference is a sign of how bad relationships have become between work and the historically largest trade union donor about the dispute about wages and conditionsThe union of which says that the wage reductions of £ 8,000 would impose on some employees in Birmingham.

It is also an escalation of broader tensions between the party and UniteOne of the left -most affiliated trade unions, which campaigns against the cuts on the cuts on the winter fuel supply and the benefits of disabilities.

The step of unite against Rayner seemed to be largely symbolic and took place when she and her cabinet colleagues were in the official country house of the prime minister, checkers, for an away game to watch the political year.

The threat to reduce or further reduce the financial ties Work Could be deeply harmful to the party at a time when it has to maintain healthy funds to combat the threats of reform and the conservatives.

Rayner, who remains a member of Unison, is considered an ally of the trade unions within the birth and is pushed by the package of the Party of Employee Rights in the light of the opposition of large companies.

A party source said: “Angela is not interested in crazy stunts, she is interested in changing employees’ life. Unite has rejected a deal in Birmingham and their demands would have undermined equal reward, discriminating against female employees. Angela will not be pushed and she stopped a few months ago.

“Angela has been fighting for the same reward as a trade union for decades, and if a domestic employee has experienced what it was like to be paid less like a woman from the working class for the same work.”

The Unite Motion said that Rayner and various workers’ council members were suspended because they “discredit the trade union” and there would be an investigation into their behavior with a “vision to expel them from the Union”, although this does not seem possible in the Rayner case.

She is supposed to have made her last membership payment in April, although she was still included as a member of Unite on the last list of ministerial interests published on 29 May.

The General Secretary of Unite, Sharon Graham, accused the Labor-conducted Birmingham Council of performing action comparable to Fire-And-Rehire, because striking employees were replaced by employees of the Agency and were confronted with the possibility of dismissal.

“Unite is crystal clear, it will call bad employers, regardless of the color of their rosette,” she said. “Angela Rayner has every opportunity to intervene and resolve this dispute, but instead has supported a rogue municipality that has stopped lies and smeared his employees who fought enormous wage reductions.

“The shameful actions of the government and a so-called Labor Council are essentially fire and renting and is a joke of the Law of Employment Relations Act. People up and down the country whose side is the Labor government and the answer thinks: no employees.”

The Unite Motion, which was adopted overwhelming, said that the Union was willing to discuss her relationship with Labor if Birmingham Council was forced by the dismissals of striking workers.

It suggests that unite can be ready to end hundreds of thousands of pounds in financing for the party. Unite gave around £ 2 million to work in the year before the elections. It has reduced its financial support in recent years, where Unison now contributes more, but it is historically the largest trade union backer of the party, which has given more than £ 70 million of its members since the data of the electoral committee started in 2007.

Friends of Rayner in the Union movement gathered around her after the spit, where many reject it as a performance to underline Unite’s hard position in the strike of the Bin Workers.

One parliamentary member close to the trade unions said: “In the entire movement, colleagues say that Unite has completely lost the plot. Angela has done more for employees in decades than any politician a fight with her shows, they are not serious.

“To be honest, this behavior will not deliver for unite members. It seems about it [Graham] Try to take the spotlight, attitude and look at next year’s general secretary elections. “

A senior unite source said that the motion was not a stunt and represented a real anger at the conference between representatives about the position of Labor about the BIN strike. They said Graham represented her members and suggested that a fall-out with labor was a growing prospect.

The union also voted to suspend the membership of John Cotton, the Labor leader of Birmingham Council, who said on Wednesday that the local authority was the “absolute limit of what we can offer”. The council did not say what the next steps would be, but it was said this week that it had to continue without delay with changes in its services, because the final round of the conversations ended without a solution.

The dispute of Unite is at the Birmingham municipal council, but since 2023 the finances and management of the local authority have been supervised by the government who are responsible for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and the Local Government.

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Cotton said that unite had repeatedly rejected reasonable offers and the requirements would have undermined female employees at the council by reopening the liabilities of equal wages.

A spokesperson for the Labor Party said: “The Labor Government has introduced the largest upgrade in the rights of employees in a generation to tackle low wages, uncertain work and poor working conditions, which will benefit 15 million employees throughout the country. Only labor means the change in the employees voted and therefore deserves.”

A spokesperson for No. 10 said about the strike that the priority of the government had always been the inhabitants of Birmingham.

There is still no -collected waste in Birmingham, although the situation has improved since the end of March when the council is a major incident About the mountains of Bin bags on the street.

In May, the Council secure a judicial order to prevent striking BIN employees on the Piketlijn Bin trucks that left depots, which was one of their tactics to ensure that the strike had the most impact.

Many regular BIN collections have since resumed, with the trucks being manned by employees of the agency. But parts of the city, in particular more disadvantaged areas, still have piles of waste on the street, with the scent aggravated by the warm weather.

Recycling bin collections in the city of more than 1 million people have been suspended since the beginning of February and residents have told that they have to bring their recycling waste to the tip or store at home. In reality, many people have placed it in their general waste bin, with growing concern about the impact of the environment as the strike continues.