Mounds of rubbish formed in Paris, where 5,400 tonnes of waste remained uncollected, Sunday March 12, according to the town hall, on the seventh day of the garbage collectors' strike against the pension reform.
Three incineration plants at the gates of the capital, those of Ivry-sur-Seine, Issy-les-Moulineaux and Saint-Ouen, are also shut down, explaining these overflowing trash cans in certain neighborhoods, sometimes aligned along the entire width of the sidewalks.
The metropolitan household waste agency, Syctom, said it was diverting the dumpsters to about fifteen other treatment or storage sites and not having required, at this stage, the intervention of the police to put an end to the blocking of its centers. City hall officials collect waste in half of the Parisian arrondissements (2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 17th and 20th), while the other half is managed by private service providers .
Retirement delayed from 57 to 59
In its renewable strike notice, the CGT recalls that garbage collectors and drivers can currently claim retirement at 57 without bonus, an age pushed back to 59 in the event of adoption of the pension reform.
"The vast majority of staff in the management of cleanliness and water has a life expectancy of twelve to seventeen years less than all employees", assures the union, also in full negotiation on the index reclassification and the career development of garbage collectors. Requested by Agence France-Presse, the CGT FTDNEEA (waste treatment, cleaning, water, sewer, sanitation sector) could not be reached immediately
On the streets, passers-by interviewed on Sunday often say they "understand the movement". Garbage collectors "are the first victims of this reform" because "often they started working young" and "do a more difficult job than other people who are in offices", comments Christophe Mouterde, an 18-year-old student.
"It's terrible, there are rats and mice," notes Romain Gaia, a 36-year-old pastry chef, who, like other traders in the 2nd arrondissement, has stored trash cans that accumulate on more than one square near a square. one meter high. But working longer for the garbage collectors, "it's delusional, they are absolutely right to make a social movement" and "should make it last perhaps even longer", believes the pastry chef. These are "people who usually don't have power, but if they stop working, they have real power," he notes.
