The garbage collection strike that has affected Paris for days, framed in the mobilizations against the reform of the pension system that the government of Emmanuel Macron wants to implement, will continue at least until Wednesday, the unions confirmed today.
In all, at least 5,400 tons of garbage accumulate currently on the sidewalks of many neighborhoods in the French capital, those where the removal of waste is not managed by private service providers, according to local media.
In addition to this visible pile of debris, three garbage incinerators in the Parisian metropolitan area are paralyzed.
Soutenir les mouvements sociaux à l’étranger et en France est sympathique, régler les mouvements sociaux dans la ville dont on a la charge c’est encore mieux! @@Anne_Hidalgo @Paris #eboueur pic.twitter.com/XjQ6dtIkSs
—Daniel Kamelgarn (@DanielKamelgarn) March 10, 2023
“The (protest) movement is prolonged until Wednesday. We are very determined to continue until the bill is withdrawn,” Régis Vieceli, general secretary of the Paris waste and sanitation branch of the CGT union, confirmed today in statements to channel bfmtv.
Like in Paris, other French cities are affected for the strike in garbage collection, but the mobilizations cover also other sectors since last Wednesday.
In transport, this weekend the strikes affected both the air transport and railwayswhose service will continue to suffer disturbances for the next few days.
In the energy area, blockages in various refineries in the country They are also going to be extended, although so far they have not caused a fuel supply crisis like the one that occurred at the end of 2022 due to economic claims by workers.
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– Rayan?♂️ (@ryndjzz__) March 12, 2023
The next big day of protests – which will be the eighth since the Government unveiled the details of its project to change access to retirement last January – has been called by all the unions for next Wednesday.
That day marks the beginning of the final stretch of the parliamentary process of the pension reform, after the Senate, where the right has the majority, adopted the proposal last night.
On Wednesday, a mixed joint commission made up of seven senators and seven deputies must meet to agree on a common text, which takes into account the latest modifications and which must then be validated again by both chambers.
Unlike what was foreseen in the Senate, in the National Assembly the sum of the necessary support to approve the final text is anticipated to be very tight.
The main axis of the project promoted by Macron is push back the minimum retirement age by two yearsfrom the current 62 years to 64.
