Will Tims is a very busy man. The pest control unit is to cross the second largest city in the United Kingdom, Birmingham, to remove mice, cockroaches and other unwanted creatures from people’s homes.
Recently, the TimMs is still playing, as it accumulated about 17,000 metric tons in the city’s streets.
“The smell is very incredible,” said Tims CNN. “It contains food rot, and there are larvae on the floor crawling from the bags.”
Summary universities in Birmingham are gathered for salaries, so some of the city’s 1.2 million residents have not gathered for weeks.
Garbage bags halls, at an altitude of several meters, are similar to the streets of red bricks such as pins in the cork.
In the Balsal Heath neighborhood, the wind was whistle through the signs of drilling in a corrupt pile where Mice and mice Hidden.
“It is a five -storey restaurant for them (mice) and comes with a hotel.”
Business grows – to the extent that TIMMS, which works alone, cannot deal with all cases and offer some jobs for competing pest control units.
He said that the number of calls from people who find mice at home has increased by about 50 % since the start of the garbage workers.
It is a picture of a city in the sixth largest economy in the world – the place that once strengthened the British Industrial Revolution that generates wealth, but less than two years ago, it announced it is bankrupt.
“There is rubbish everywhere, Mice Abed, who is pedestrians in Heath’s removal, said, CNN.
“This is the United Kingdom. This is in 2025. What is happening?”
Workers
Almost 400 amateurs of garbage collection in the strike due to the municipal government’s decision to eliminate a specific job.
UNITE, a union that represents workers, argues that this measure prevents the progress of workers ’salaries and reduces some employees, which leads to a reduction in annual salaries of up to 8,000 euros (about $ 51,000 rupees) in the worst cases.
The Birmingham Municipal Council opposes this number and says that it has provided alternative jobs and opportunities to rehabilitate the affected workers.
On the site, the Board of Directors states that “no worker needs to lose money” and that the changes in employees are an essential part of an attempt to “become financially sustainable” and update the garbage collection service.
The bitter conflict recently entered the fourth month in a row and condensed.
Initially, the strikes were intermittent, but in early March it became unlimited.
Only some garbage collectors in the city and temporary employees are still working, and according to the council, less than half of the usual number of garbage trucks currently operate.
Some parts of the city seemed more affected than others when CNN He visited last week.
On Monday (31), the Municipal Council stated that the accumulation of garbage and risks to the public health represented had created a “serious incident”-an official mechanism that allowed employees to mobilize additional garbage trucks throughout the city.
The council reported that the demonstrators prevented trucks that came out of the garbage deposits, which led to a lower collection in homes.
“It is a dangerous, dirty, and very physical demands, so people deserve to be rewarded properly,” said Unai Casab, UNITE national manager. CNN.
Tourist city
The PEAKY BLEDERS series, on a criminal gang in Birmingham in the twenties of the twentieth century, put the city on the global map when it appeared for the first time over a decade – which led to the generation of the tourist industry itself and brought a very necessary place to the city.
At the end of 2023, the municipal council, which was run by the UK Ruler’s Party, provided a warning from Article 114 – as it officially called the municipal version of bankruptcy – which stopped all expenditures, except for basic services such as education and garbage collection.
The city has largely failed because the salary conflict that extends for many years means that there must be large sums of compensation for former workers than women who got less than men for similar work.
But the mistakes of the council increased the pressure outside of control.
The demand for services increased with the emergence of Brummies – a name given to the city’s residents – more, while the costs of providing these services increased as well.
It is a dilemma in which local governments participate throughout the country, where many financial cord balances.
British local authorities receive a lot of funding in the form of central government subsidies.
However, the value of these benefits has decreased since 2010, when the previous conservative government began economic amendments aimed at reducing the country’s debts after the financial crisis.
In England, the financing of councils by residents – including subsidies and local taxes – is 18 % lower than its level in 2010, on average, according to a report issued by the Institute of Tax Studies in June 2024.
Birmingham calamities weigh on TimMs, pest control unit. He said about the last garbage crisis: “I am angry at the appearance of the city.” “It affects everyone’s health.”
However, the flood of negative news reduces birth because it blocks the full truth from its hometown.
“Among the Brummies, it seems that there is solidarity, which is great,” he said. “I love Birmingham extensively.”
