Bin and refuse workers in Edinburgh will begin strike action this Thursday. It is the starting-gun in a first wave of strike action which will hit waste services in fifteen councils across Scotland over the coming weeks.
The action will inevitably lead to bins not being collected, waste piling up and streets looking dirty. It’s a travesty that this will happen during the Edinburgh International and Fringe festivals just as we are emerging out of the long cold shadow of Covid.
Yet, this travesty is not the making of hard working low-paid professionals who continued to turn up for work throughout the pandemic to provide services for you.
