Huge queues at rubbish drop off sites in UK's second-biggest city as garbage strike continues

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Mohammed Ghafoor, 68, from Saltley, Birmingham, was dropping off his garbage at Broadway Avenue, Heartlands, Birmingham, today (April 6).  He said the streets around his home are filled with trash being dumped by people from across the city.  He described the garbage strikes as "stupidity," adding that local residents can't deal with the mess anymore.  Garbage workers walked out indefinitely on March 11 after strikes across January and February.

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00:30I don't know what it's all about because council has offered them quite a bit and already

00:59they were on a good wage anyway. So I don't know why why they're striking and even when they were

01:06not they were not doing their job properly either. They come in in the morning and they finish around

01:10about 12 o'clock and go home. They don't do nothing during the day you know and if there's a spillage

01:17they never pick it up. They never clean the street afterwards because they spilled it themselves

01:22and if you got a little bit over they'll never take it and they tell you to leave it. They don't

01:28care. You know that's not the way to do the work. If I was working somewhere else and my boss tells

01:33me to do something I have to do it. Why shouldn't I? He's paying me and I have to work from nine

01:39till six. You know I don't know I can't understand why. I reckon they should second the lot

01:46and give the new people a job because there's plenty of people want to take over. Seriously.

02:16So

02:46Thanks for that one.

02:48Alright.

02:52Cool.

02:54See ya.

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