by Brian Bamford
Health & Safety in the Waste Manager's Office?
PEALS
of laughter greeted the announcement at a meeting of the Unite
Greater Manchester Activists last February, that a waste disposal
manager had ended-up sporting a black-eye after an interview with an
agency worker at Bury Council's Bradley Fold Waste Depot. Last January an agency worker had
been querying his own status, having been 8-years a temp working for
Bury MBC on insecure tenure and unable to get a mortgage with a wife
who’d just given birth.Health & Safety in the Waste Manager's Office?
The complaining agency worker, who'd done an 8-year unsecure stint, told Northern Voices that Mr. Stuart had claimed in justification that there were agency workers in other local authorities in Greater Manchester who had done up to 15-years as agency workers.
No-one knows for
sure what took place next in the office of the waste manager, Glenn
Stuart, but there seems to have been an altercation which resulted in
a complaint to the police on the 23rd, January from Mr.
Stuart who ended up with a black-eye. Northern Voices contacted the
Greater Manchester Police in April, and asked if the police
were investigating this as an allegation of common assault and requesting the crime or log number on this case?
Although it's clear that this case was reported to the police it seems that it turned out to be 'one person's word against another', because we're told that Mr. Stuart keeps the blinds closed in his office.
The secretive Mr. Stuart has a thing about privacy, and doesn't like the fact that in 2016 some folk in Bury took to photographing the town's overflowing bins. At that time on May 1st, 2016 The Mail on Sunday journalist, Martin Delgardo, reporting on the management style of Stuart in a headline wrote: 'Bin tsar who slashed collections to one every THREE WEEKS tries to crack down on opposition by banning photographs of overflowing bins'.
However, after the 'violent' incident at Bradley Fold, a letter was sent out to binmen and other members of staff reminding everyone of the importance of health and safety and the Council's commitment to a safe environment. There is talk of a 'them and us attitude' in the Bradley Fold waste depot, and some cynics among the workforce are muttering about a cover-up as to what really went on behind the Venetian blinds of the waste manager's office last January.
As the headline 'Bin Tsar' in the Mail on Sunday report in 2016 above suggests, Mr. Stuart has a reputation as something of a zealot in the realm of rubbish collection, which he seems to covert.
As the Mail on Sunday stated he was then warning that he may get tougher still to force the people of Bury into recycling, saying: ‘People have been given ample opportunity to fall in line. We need to formulate a plan of action in terms of enforcement.’
The scheme’s opponents claimed it had led to an increase in rat infestation. With Iain Gartside, leader of the Conservative group on Bury council, saying: ‘It’s an absolutely disgrace, with overflowing bins and increased fly-tipping.’
Meanwhile in last week's Bury Times the leader of Bury Council, Labour Councillor Rishi Shori said: 'Fly-tipping is a growing problem in the borough, although the council has allocated additional resources to tackle the problem in three main ways, focusing on prevention: the installation of CCTV cameras in fly-tipping hotspots, enforcement and, where possible, by removing fly-tipped items, although this is becoming increasingly more difficult due to the budget pressures we are under.'
Recently we can't help but notice that the 'installation of CCTV cameras in fly-tipping hotspots' has had the consequence of shifting the flytipping from the town centres and urban areas of Bury to the more posh, leafy zones like Tottington and Stubbins. No wonder the Tories are upset.
The secretive Mr. Stuart has a thing about privacy, and doesn't like the fact that in 2016 some folk in Bury took to photographing the town's overflowing bins. At that time on May 1st, 2016 The Mail on Sunday journalist, Martin Delgardo, reporting on the management style of Stuart in a headline wrote: 'Bin tsar who slashed collections to one every THREE WEEKS tries to crack down on opposition by banning photographs of overflowing bins'.
However, after the 'violent' incident at Bradley Fold, a letter was sent out to binmen and other members of staff reminding everyone of the importance of health and safety and the Council's commitment to a safe environment. There is talk of a 'them and us attitude' in the Bradley Fold waste depot, and some cynics among the workforce are muttering about a cover-up as to what really went on behind the Venetian blinds of the waste manager's office last January.
As the headline 'Bin Tsar' in the Mail on Sunday report in 2016 above suggests, Mr. Stuart has a reputation as something of a zealot in the realm of rubbish collection, which he seems to covert.
As the Mail on Sunday stated he was then warning that he may get tougher still to force the people of Bury into recycling, saying: ‘People have been given ample opportunity to fall in line. We need to formulate a plan of action in terms of enforcement.’
The scheme’s opponents claimed it had led to an increase in rat infestation. With Iain Gartside, leader of the Conservative group on Bury council, saying: ‘It’s an absolutely disgrace, with overflowing bins and increased fly-tipping.’
Meanwhile in last week's Bury Times the leader of Bury Council, Labour Councillor Rishi Shori said: 'Fly-tipping is a growing problem in the borough, although the council has allocated additional resources to tackle the problem in three main ways, focusing on prevention: the installation of CCTV cameras in fly-tipping hotspots, enforcement and, where possible, by removing fly-tipped items, although this is becoming increasingly more difficult due to the budget pressures we are under.'
Recently we can't help but notice that the 'installation of CCTV cameras in fly-tipping hotspots' has had the consequence of shifting the flytipping from the town centres and urban areas of Bury to the more posh, leafy zones like Tottington and Stubbins. No wonder the Tories are upset.
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