London (AP): There is a stench that rises over the second largest city in the United Kingdom.
The garbage has accumulated for a month in the duration of Birmingham, a dispute between the city and its garbage collectors. It is an eye view and nose offensive. It is said that the mountains of garbage are visible from space and people have complained about seeing rats as large as cats in the garbage.
“You can see the juice that comes out of the bags to the road. Sorry,” Naeem Yousef said. “They are knocking out the areas. People say:” Look at these areas, how dirty these people are. “
The conversations failed to reach an agreement on Monday, but were scheduled to resume on Tuesday when the strike enters its fifth week.
The Unite members, the union that represents the workers of the garbage trucks, left the work on March 11 on the elimination of a job and the painful salary cuts. The Council said that it has made a reasonable sacrifice, that the cuts would only affect a small number of jobs and that the work that is eliminated are unnecessary.
The Birmingham City Council, administered by Birmingham, is an effective bankruptcy due to an agreement on historical wage discrimination. As a result, it has had significant budget cuts of 300 million pounds ($ 383 million) approximately two years and only provides services required by law, including waste collection.
As the lots of black bags dirty the sidewalks with their contents that spilled from the holes chewed by the creatures, the City Council declared an important incident to also bring crews and cleaning vehicles.
The photos on the news sites and social networks show furniture, mattresses and cars of illegally thrown with bulky garbage bags. In a neighborhood, the garbage sacks caught fire.
The United Kingdom Labor Government has been criticized for opposition parties because the problem, but Angela Rayner, Vice Prime Minister, told members of the House of Commons that it is a local problem and that the government was pressing the two parties to achieve.
“Our priority is to address misery and interruption for residents,” said Angela Rayner. “It is essential to protect public health by addressing waste accumulation.”
Kevin Hollinrake, a conservative member of Parliament, said the situation was “a national shame” and could become a public health emergency with warm temperatures forecast later in the week.
Birmingham, a city of more than 1 million residents 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of London in Midlands of England, has been here before. A garbage strike in 2017 brought similar chaos and lasted seven weeks in the heat of summer.
The collection workers are to blame for the legs for blocking the dump trucks of leaving deposits until the police intervened. But even with some trucks rolling, the immense amount of garbage is too delight and the options for residents to get rid of their waste are limited and take a long time.
The images of drones in the BBC that shot on Friday showed a traffic backup Milelelong (1.6 kilometers) to a mobile overturning site.
Vanita Patel said she deposited her garbage in family containers on the outskirts of Birmingham. Meanwhile, Yousef eliminated the team from his work to deliver his garbage and that of his neighbors to a local garbage site, where he had to make an appointment.
“It’s like winning a lottery now to try to get a reservation,” he said.
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