Glasgow’s streets and houses are being overrun by 1.3 million rats, a trade union leader has said.Chris Mitchell, of the GMB union which represents the city’s cleansing staff, said workers were facing rat attacks on a daily basis.
The union representative flatly contradicted city council leader Susan Aitken’s claim that there was no particular panic about the rodent population in the run-up to COP26 climate conference in Glasgow.
Mitchell spoke out after Aitken, the leader of the SNP-controlled council, dismissed the increase in the rodent population as one or two incidents of “very minor contact with a rat”.
Council workers across Scotland are set to take industrial action over low pay next month, led by the Glasgow cleansing staff who
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