The CGT launched on Tuesday February 14 a call for a renewable strike by garbage collectors and “the whole industry” waste from the national day of action on March 7 against the pension reform project and the two-year postponement of the legal retirement age.
“The CGT federations of public services and transport call (…) in all companies, public establishments and communities to meet (…) to prepare for the strike in the sectors of waste and household waste collection, sorting and treatment of waste, from March 7 and until the withdrawal of the bill “they say in a joint press release.
It is for the moment the only union to launch this call, but the CGT is in the majority for example in Paris, whether among municipal garbage collectors and those of the private sector, recalls François Livartowski, federal secretary of the CGT-public services.
“It’s time to fight back”
The collection and sorting sector is shared between the public service, managed by local authorities, which depend on the federation of public services, and the private sector (companies such as Veolia, Derichebourg and Nicollin), whose workers are organized by the federation of transport.
“It is our contribution, our participation in the call of the inter-union for the blocking of the economy”he told AFP, indicating that the CGT will contact the other trade union federations in the sector to broaden the call, “since we are in the dynamics of the national inter-union”.
“Two more years of work would, for a large part of us, mean the risk of dying before retirement, or shortly after. Faced with such contempt for our careers, our professions, our lives, it is time for a response and general mobilization.conclude the two federations.