A week after the start of a strike by garbage workers to protest France’s pension reform project, bags of garbage have piled up on the streets of the capital, Paris, as work has ground to a halt at three incineration stations outside the capital. some of the city’s most famous neighborhoods such as Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Areas where private companies are responsible for garbage collection were not affected. And the Paris city council announced on Sunday that thousands of tons of rubbish had piled up on the streets of the French capital, a week after garbage collectors began on strike to protest the government’s pension reform project. Three incinerators outside the capital have stopped working, entire sidewalks are littered with garbage bags, and containers are overflowing.
And the Sitcom agency, which is responsible for household waste, said it has changed the route of garbage trucks to other places of storage and processing in the area, while the police have not yet been contacted. Over the past week, city cleaners have removed garbage from only half of the districts of Paris. The strike affected some of the city’s most prominent areas, such as Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Areas where private companies are responsible for garbage collection were not affected.
Garbage pickers and drivers can now retire at age 57, according to the far-left Confederation of General Labor (CGT), but will have to work two more years under reform plans that still allow for early retirement for people. whose working conditions are difficult. The confederation notes that the life expectancy of garbage collectors is 12 to 17 years lower than the national average. The main reform measure is to raise the general minimum retirement age from 62 to 64, which many see as unfair to people who start working at an early age.
