Refusing to do overtime, and have been carrying out two hour stoppages every day which rose to three hours today. The dispute is about planned changes to working practices. Our correspondent sima kotecha reports. It looks bad and smells even worse. Piles and piles of rubbish strewn across birmingham streets. On this road, it has been a week since the rubbish was collected. We saw a rat over there yesterday. Absolutely disgraceful. Forfour weeks, its been here. Absolutely terrible. So we pay all that money in council taxes, and they wont come and get it. Give the binmen what they want. It is disgusting. We come out of our house and it smells of rotten food. It is horrible. Dirty nappies. Obviously, there is no other way to dispose of them. Try and get as much poo off them as possible, but theres always some left. When you open the bin, all you get is a whiff. Flies flying out of big green ones. The stench in this part of rubbish really is unbearable. Im not sure if you can see it, but t
Refusing to do overtime, and have been carrying out two hour stoppages every day which rose to three hours today. The dispute is about planned changes to working practices. Our correspondent sima kotecha reports. It looks bad and smells even worse. Piles and piles of rubbish strewn across birmingham streets. On this road, it has been a week since the rubbish was collected. We saw a rat over there yesterday. Absolutely disgraceful. Forfour weeks, its been here. Absolutely terrible. So we pay all that money in council taxes, and they wont come and get it. Give the binmen what they want. It is disgusting. We come out of our house and it smells of rotten food. It is horrible. Dirty nappies. Obviously, there is no other way to dispose of them. Try and get as much poo off them as possible, but theres always some left. When you open the bin, all you get is a whiff. Flies flying out of big green ones. The stench in this part of rubbish really is unbearable. Im not sure if you can see it, but t
are starting strike action today. the north east of england and scotland will be the first hit but action across the uk will follow. meanwhile, the nurses strike due to take place across england, wales and northern ireland on thursday looks set to go ahead after a breakdown in talks yesterday. the current wave of strikes come as workers seek pay increases to keep up with the rising cost of living. if we take a look at this graph, the red line shows how quickly prices are rising, with an inflation rate of more than ii%. pay isn t keeping up with that in the private sector, average wage growth was 6.9% between august and october, according to the office for national statistics in the public sector, average pay has only gone up 2.7%. that means all workers have seen their wages fall in real terms.