Birmingham’s bin strike rolls on as Deputy PM Angela Rayner urges workers to accept a new deal. But union leaders reject the offer, saying most staff would still lose out. With piles of rubbish building up, we take a look at where the dispute goes from here.
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00:00It started with the loss of a health and safety role, now it's a full-blown standoff.
00:07Bin bags spilling out across pavements, rats multiplying and a city choking on weeks of stalemite.
00:14Since March Birmingham's bin workers have downed tools.
00:17The council says it's made a better offer. Ministers are backing that view.
00:21Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner visited a recycling depot and called on workers to accept the deal.
00:28But the union United says the offer barely scratches the surface by claim only a few are protected.
00:34While hundreds face real terms pay cuts and no way to move up the ladder.
00:38For some that's a loss of up to eight grand a year. Try absorbing that on a refuse wage.
00:44The numbers are murky. United says 150 jobs are affected. The council disputes it.
00:49Arguing the role in question doesn't even exist in other authorities.
00:53It's become a tug of war over facts with no common ground in sight.
00:57Meanwhile the rubbish keeps mounting 17,000 tonnes by the council's own reckoning.
01:02Litchfield District Council has been called in to help.
01:05In Westminster some want the army involved.
01:08Police have already warned picketers their actions could break public order laws.
01:12But away from the headlines people are living it.
01:16Especially in the city's poorer areas where bins are overflowing and complaints fall on deaf ears.
01:22It's not just about the strike it's about how quick those at the top are to dismiss those at the bottom.
01:28Workers are now voting on the deal.
01:30Whether they back it or not the message from the streets is loud and clear.
01:34When the system grinds to a halt it's the ordinary folks left to live in the mess.
01:39While those responsible carry on untouched.
01:44That means that at the time of office isn't there yesterday.
01:45You don't have to be worried about that.
01:46Although the system grinds out.
01:47Okay.
01:48The system grinds to a correct issue is in the pre-impact of the laws and laws.
01:49There are no more in place to go in the святings, too.
01:50If you want to be worried about that.
01:53Do it because the system grinds to be in the sp over open, you do it, but I'm in a different way.
01:54What are you doing?
01:55The system does not need to be worried about that.
01:57There are no more in it.
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