I read your front page story "Bumper Easter For The Binmen" (The Argus, March 13) .
Fair wages, by all means but £230 a day for Brighton and Hove binmen to clear up the backlog of work following Easter reeks of extortion and should not be allowed.
Binmen should be contracted to work extra hours to clear backlogs of work at normal overtime rates only as long as the work is a genuinely inevitable, such as after public holidays, but not as a result of industrial action.
Some people barely earn £230 a week. Congratulations to The Argus for exposing how the council squanders taxpayers' precious money.
-Ray Wootton, Saltdean
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