A Scottish Labour MSP is urging Nicola Sturgeon to meet with cleansing workers in Glasgow after she found rats in her flat in the city.
Refuse workers are set to go on strike during the COP26 climate conference as part of a long-running dispute with council bosses.
The SNP-run local authority has come under pressure to clean the streets ahead of the United Nations summit which lasts from November 1 to 12.
Pam Duncan-Glancy echoed calls from Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar who asked the First Minister to meet with refuse workers tomorrow to hear their concerns about the crisis.
During her question the MSP for Glasgow told a shocked Scottish Parliament that the situation was so bad in Glasgow that she has rats in her own flat.
She said: "As my representative, as my MSP, I ask the First Minister again please meet with cleansing workers tomorrow and hear for them firsthand what is happening.
"I can assure you there are rats in our streets, there are rats in my flat.
"As my representative, please meet with cleansing workers tomorrow and show that you care about Glasgow."
Replying to Duncan-Glancy, Sturgeon said: "I think people who live in and work in Glasgow, certainly in my constituency, know that I care deeply about all of the issues that they face.
"I listen to cleansing workers, I listen to people across Glasgow on a daily basis.
"My job as a local representative is to represent those interests, which I do everyday to the best of my ability.
"I don't shy away as a resident of and a representative of the city of Glasgow.
"I don't shy away from the challenges that the city faces but I do think some of the language that Labour is using about Glasgow, some of the ways in which Labour is seeking to characterise the city of Glasgow is doing a disservice to the city."
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