Unite the union's National Lead Officer Onay Kasab on why the Birmingham Bin Strike is still taking place eight months on.<br /><br />All bin collections across Birmingham have been suspended after agency staff, initially brought in to maintain services during an ongoing bin strike, staged their own walkout.<br /><br />"I would challenge anybody to come up with another dispute where agency workers, who have been brought in to break the strike, have actually been balloted for strike action themselves and have voted to take action," he said.<br /><br />"Even if it was four or five agency workers coming out, that would be massive, but we've got over 40 and more and more joining us."<br /><br />Strikes have led to rubbish piling up, with uncollected waste several feet high in some streets in the first few months, amid complaints of rats, foxes and seagulls tearing open plastic bags.<br /><br />© Adam Yosef #AdamYosef
