Bin strikes, stinking rubbish and rats – what's life like in Birmingham now?

This Is Why

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

It's been five weeks since the Birmingham bin strikes began over a long-running dispute between workers and the council. The city's residents have complained that mounting rubbish is a risk to public health, with rotting food attracting foxes, cockroaches and rats.

Tom Cheshire speaks to Sky's Midlands correspondent, Shamaan Freeman-Powell, who's been in the city finding out how residents are dealing with the mounting rubbish, the smell and the rats - and whether an end to the strikes is in sight.

Podcast producer: Natalie Ktena
Editor: Wendy Parker

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1:07.9	What has gone wrong in Birmingham? And what does it say about the UK?
1:13.1	Uber drivers. Have you seen your pay go down while your fees to Uber go up? All because of an
1:18.3	algorithm that reduces your take-home pay, making you work more for less. We believe Uber's
1:24.1	dynamic pay and upfront pricing is unfair. That's why Worker Info Exchange has launched the dynamic pay claim
1:30.6	to seek compensation for drivers who have lost income.
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