Waste in Paris: new strike notice from 13 April

Europe 1 with AFP 13h43, 04 April 2023, modified at 13h44, 04 April 2023

The CGT of the waste and sanitation sector of Paris calls for a new renewable strike against the pension reform from Thursday, April 13, after a three-week movement in March that caused a pile of garbage cans in the streets of the capital.

This new strike notice "renewable and indefinite" is filed "for the withdrawal of the pension reform Macron / Borne and for a return to retirement at 60 years maximum, with for the staff concerned a return to 50 and 55 years," explains in a statement released Monday evening the majority union of the sector in Paris, which had suspended a first movement on March 29 for lack of strikers.

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All ECD staff also called upon to participate

This new notice will begin the day before the announcement on April 14 of the decisions of the Constitutional Council on the pension reform. The Wise Men will vote on the one hand on the constitutionality of the pension reform, on the other hand on the admissibility of the request for a referendum of shared initiative (RIP) launched by the left.

The CGT-FTDNEEA also calls "all the staff of the DPE (direction of cleanliness and water) to participate actively and massively in the days of inter-union and interprofessional action of the coming days and in particular that of Thursday, it indicates in its strike notice sent Monday to the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.

The CGT assures the elected socialist, opponent of Emmanuel Macron, that the garbage collectors and dumpster drivers of Paris "would pass to a retirement at 59 years", against 57 years today, in case of adoption of the reform, while "the vast majority of the staff of the DPE has a life expectancy of 12 to 17 years less than all the employees of France".

Incinerators blocked

This announcement comes as the streets of Paris have returned at the beginning of the week to an almost normal appearance after three weeks of a strike symbolized by a peak at more than 10,000 tons of garbage not collected, and piles of garbage reaching several meters in height in some neighborhoods. Monday, five days after the lifting of the movement, the collection was "gradually starting back to normal", had indicated the town hall.

Since the same lifting, the three incinerators of Ivry-sur-Seine, Issy-les-Moulineaux and Saint-Ouen, crucial for the disposal of waste from the capital, are still subject to sporadic blockades by people outside the sector.