The front page of The Daily Telegraph this morning, 15-04-2025, reports on the Birmingham bin strike as union members yesterday overwhelmingly voted to reject the deal, calling it inadequate. The paper says unions are threatening to spread the bin strikes across the country,y and there are fears of a potential health crisis – six weeks after the strikes began.
Unions threaten to spread bin strikes
- Unions threaten to spread bin strikes: bin strikes are set to spread “across the country” as the Birmingham strike enters its sixth week and there is no end in sight as Unite (workers union) members overwhelmingly rejected a second offer from the council. The paper says the vote will be seen as a “humiliation” for Angela Rayner after she “pleaded” with union bosses to accept the deal.
- China warns Britain not to politicise steel saga: On Monday China’s foreign ministry urged the UK to “treat Chinese businesses that have invested and operate in the UK fairly and justly, (and) protect their legitimate and lawful rights and interests”.
- NHS fast-tracks ethnic minority staff into senior jobs: NHS trusts are fast-tracking ethnic minorities to top jobs to meet diversity quotas. At least 11 major hospital trusts around England have schemes or programmes focused on helping ethnic minority employees to gain promotions to senior roles.