The garbage accumulates in the streets of Birmingham while a strike of the toilet -SANITARI in the city of the United Kingdom enters its fifth week
There is a stench that rises on the second largest city in the United Kingdom.
Garbage has accumulated for a month in Birmingham During a dispute between the city and its garbage collectors. It is a painful show for the eyes and offensive to the nose. Mountains Waste is said to be visible from space and people have complained to see large mice like cats in waste.
“You can see the juice that flows out of the bags on the road. It stinks,” said Naeem Yousef. “He is breaking down the areas. People say:” Look at these areas, how dirty these people are. “”
The talks were unable to reach an agreement on Monday but had to resume on Tuesday when the strike enters its fifth week.
The members of Unite, the union representing the workers of the garbage trucks, came out of March 11 for the elimination of a position of working work and cuts of salary. The Council said that it made a reasonable offer, that the cuts would influence only a small number of jobs and that the works that are eliminated are not necessary.
The work managed City Council of Birmingham It has actually failed due to an agreement on the historical discrimination of salary. As a result, it had to make significant budget cuts of 300 million pounds ($ 383 million) in two years and provides only services required by law, including waste collection.
While heaps of black bags scattered with their content that poured out of the holes chewed by creatures, the city council declared a serious accident to bring further cleaning and vehicles crews.
The photos on news sites and social media show furniture, mattresses and bumpers for cars illegally downloaded together with protruding bags. In a neighborhood, the garbage bags were set on fire.
The Labor government of the United Kingdom was hit by the opposition parties because of the problem, but Angela Rayner, deputy prime minister, told members of the Chamber of Municipalities that it is a local question and the government was pressing the two sides to reach an agreement.
“Our priority is to face misery and interruption for residents,” Angela Rayner said. “It is essential to protect public health by facing waste backlog.”
Kevin Hollinrake, conservative member of Parliament, said that the situation was “a national embarrassment” and could become a public health emergency with hot temperatures forecast later in the week.
Birmingham, a city of over 1 million residents 100 miles (160 kilometers) in the north -west of London In the Midlands of England, it was here before. A garbage strike in 2017 brought a similar chaos and lasted seven weeks in the heat of the summer.
The picket workers were blamed to have blocked the cassone trucks aimed at leaving the deposits until the police intervened. But also with some trucks that roll, the immense amount of waste is overwhelming and the options for residents to get rid of their waste are limited and require time.
The filming of the drones on the BBC shot on Friday showed a Milelong traffic backup (1.6 kilometers) on a Dump Mobile site.
Vanita Patel said she was depositing the garbage in the bins of relatives outside Birmingham. In the meantime, Yousef has removed the equipment from his work van to deliver his garbage and that of his neighbors on a local landfill site, where he had to make an appointment.
“It’s like winning a lottery now to try to get a reservation,” he said.
