In Paris, garbage collectors vote to continue the strike "at least until March 20"

Europe 1 with AFP 4:45 p.m., March 14, 2023

The garbage collectors and cleaning agents of the City of Paris, mobilized against the pension reform project, voted Tuesday morning to continue the strike "at least until March 20", during a general meeting on the site of cremation at Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne).

“We voted to renew the strike at least until March 20,” Julien Lejeune, sanitation supervisor at Paris City Hall and CGT delegate, who is picketing the incinerator, told AFP. d'Ivry-sur-Seine, while some 6,600 tonnes of waste were identified in the capital on the 9th day of the strike.

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The municipal agents in charge of the cleanliness of the capital are determined not to give in to the pension reform project carried by the government.

In addition to Ivry, two other incinerators are also shut down, in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine) and Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), while the fourth, located in Romainville (Seine-Saint -Denis), is saturated.

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The Paris City Hall, which manages the collection of household waste in half of the arrondissements, said it was "in solidarity" with the social movement.

A position attacked by the Minister of Transport Clément Beaune who declared Tuesday morning on France 2 to wait for the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo "to initiate requisitions".

Asked by journalists, the first deputy Emmanuel Grégoire wanted to be reassuring, affirming that the City "is putting in place palliative measures to manage the points of absolute urgency" and that "it is more than the minimum service that is provided ".

Garbage collectors and sanitation workers should retire at age 59 instead of the current 57 if the reform is passed.