Angela Rayner is criticized by Unite general secretary Sharon Graham for her approach towards the Birmingham bin workers' strike. Graham claims Rayner refuses to engage and is complicit in the controversial fire-and-rehire practices affecting the workers. Despite being a long-time union member, it is suggested that Rayner may have resigned her membership recently. Unite members voted to reconsider their relationship with the Labour Party and called for Rayner's suspension from the union during a recent conference. Graham emphasizes the importance of addressing the underlying issues rather than avoiding them.
Angela Rayner has been accused of handling the Birmingham bin workers' strike in a totally and utterly abhorrent way by the Unite general secretary, Sharon Graham. Graham told BBC Radio 4 Today's programme: Angela Rayner refuses to get involved, and she is directly aiding and abetting the fire-and-rehire of these bin workers, it is totally and utterly abhorrent.
Graham said the deputy prime minister had also failed to turn up to a recent meeting with Graham, stating that Rayner doesn't want to talk about this issue, because she knows what is happening is abhorrent, but she does not want to intervene.
Members of Unite voted to re-examine the union's relationship with Labour and suspend Rayner's membership of Unite over her role in the bin strike at a recent conference.
Graham said: If I was Angela Rayner this morning, I wouldn't be trying to do a Houdini act on whether, technically, she was or she wasn't [a member] at this juncture.
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