Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishA furious resident of Birmingham has blasted her neighbours for fly-tipping as the city’s bin crisis intensifies, telling them: ‘You’re all f***ing tramps!’Tempers boiled over on Runcorn Road in the Balsall Heath area of Birmingham, where a huge pile of fly-tipped furniture appeared to be completely blocking one pavement. Balsall Heath is one of the city’s most deprived neighbourhoods and has been particularly blighted by an epidemic of fly-tipping in recent weeks. An all-out strike by bin workers in the country’s second city has seen streets buried under 21,000 tonnes of uncollected rubbish, fuelling concerns of a looming public health crisis.But while many residents have dealt with the crisis by taking their rubbish to the tip themselves, others have simply dumped them in piles on the street.This has led others to try to take advantage of the chaotic situation by abandoning unwanted furniture and white goods next to the piles of festering bin bags. In a dramatic clip, one exasperated resident, Chelsea Bernard, can be seen yelling at her neighbours on Runcorn Road – warning them that she would call the police if she saw more fly-tipping. She said: ‘It’s disgusting, because we’re all meant to be neighbours living round here, but everyone wants to live like tramps. Balsall Heath resident Chelsea Bernard confronted her neighbours for fly-tipping – accusing them of failing to help her clear up Mountains of rubbish are overflowing onto the streets. Pictured: Gibbins Road on April 8 Rubbish piles up at a flat block on Edgbaston Road East on Tuesday’The other day I was walking up and down the road, getting the litter up, and not one of you came out to help – that’s the cheek of it. ‘Everyone’s in their house, looking at the rubbish, but no-one came out to help me. You’re all f***ing tramps.’ The tense confrontation comes after almost a month of strike action which has seen bin collection stop entirely for many of the city’s 1.2 million residents. Angela Rayner today hit out at bin strike union bosses for causing ‘misery’.The Deputy Prime Minister said that Unite should accept an improved pay deal and call off its industrial action, which has left refuse lorries idle at their depot for weeks.Ms Rayner, who is also the Local Government Secretary, said that more than 100 lorries from the city and neighbouring authorities are now working extended shifts to clear the backlog.The Tories have warned of a 19th Century-style health crisis causes by disease-carrying rats feeding and breeding among the tons of rubbish in black bags on the streets.’The people of Birmingham are our first priority – this dispute is causing misery and disruption to residents and the backlog must be dealt with quickly to address public health risks,’ Ms Rayner said. Residents have grown increasingly frustrated by an epidemic of fly-tipping which has led to bin bags taking up entire pavements Birmingham is now believed to have around 21,000 tonnes of rubbish needing collection from the streets Some residents have resorted to increasingly eccentric methods of disposing of their rubbish’My department is working with Birmingham City Council to support its response to accelerate clearing the backlog and rapidly improve the situation on the ground.’Neighbouring authorities are providing additional vehicles and crews, and we are providing logistical support.’I have pressed both sides to negotiate at pace to urgently find a resolution. There is now a better offer on the table and I would urge Unite to suspend the action and accept the improved deal so we achieve fairness for both workers and residents of this city.’The ‘ridiculous’ strike has provoked a backlash among union figures, who claim chaos has been unleashed over the salaries of just 17 binmen.The industrial action, taken by members of Unite, was mounted over plans by the bankrupt city council to scrap the role of waste recycling and collection officers as it grapples with a £350 million black hole in its finances.But the council has insisted that only 17 workers would face the maximum financial loss of up to £6,000 per year under its pay restructuring plans.It led one Birmingham MP, Preet Kaur Gill, to accuse Unite of ‘holding residents to ransom’ by not accepting the ‘fair deal on the table for the small number who are on strike’.Now the scale of disruption is threatening to split the union movement itself, with reports suggesting senior Unite figures had grown frustrated with the tactics. Striking workers faced furious criticism for blocking rubbish lorries from leaving depots in the first weeks of the strike Unite claims the dispute is ‘about 150 workers suffering pay cuts of up to £8,000’ – but the council said only 17 bin workers would lose up to £6,000One union source described the strike as ‘completely ridiculous’ given it could affect as few as 17 workers at the sharp end, telling The Times it amounted to ‘very vexatious industrial action’.Unite has disputed the figures of impacted workers quoted by the council, claiming that the dispute is ‘about 150 workers suffering pay cuts of up to £8,000’.But a senior Unite figure claimed the strike was doomed to fail because of the parlous financial situation in which the council found itself.‘You can’t just throw your head in the sand and [keep saying], where’s the money?,’ the Unite figure told the newspaper.Another insider claimed there was ‘a lot of eye-rolling’ going on across the union movement, while there was said to be wider concern that Unite ‘have given themselves no off-ramp’ in negotiations.The row came as Unite’s national leadership team was today accused of interfering in talks between striking bin workers and the council when they were on the cusp of a deal.An agreement was said to have been within reach in January and February, when there were a series of rolling strikes, but workers had yet to begin all-out action, the BBC reported.Local reps were said to have been close to a deal with the council, which had been backed by refuse workers at two of the city’s three lorry depots.But national Unite figures were said to have become involved at the third site – where the deal was rejected.Sources told the broadcaster the handling of the dispute was being influenced by power struggles within the union. Unite said the claims were ‘entirely without merit’.A spokesman said: ‘It is absolutely outrageous that those with a political axe to grind are trying to score cheap points by attacking Unite members, who are fighting against these brutal wage cuts.‘Unite makes no apologies for defending workers from paying the price for mistakes made by politicians. Birmingham’s refuse workers will have their union’s total backing for as long as it takes.‘It is clear that in ballot after ballot workers have rejected losing up to £8000 pound in pay with no pay protection. Maybe that should focus people’s minds.’
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