The waste will continue to pile up on the sidewalks of the capital. The CGT’s “waste treatment” sector has agreed to continue the strike until “at least until Monday March 20”, during a general meeting at the Ivry-sur- Seine (Val-de-Marne), indicates Agence France Presse, confirming information from Figaro.
In a press release that our colleagues were able to consult, this mobilization against the pension reform “thus concerns all the agents of the working sector waste treatment, cleaning, water, sewers and sanitation in the city of Paris”.
“We voted to renew the strike until at least March 20,” said Julien Lejeune, sanitation supervisor at the Paris City Hall and CGT delegate, who is picketing the Ivry-Ivry incinerator. sur-Seine, while some 6,600 tonnes of waste were recorded in the capital on the 9th day of the strike.
The saturated Romainville incinerator
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.
The City of Paris, which manages the collection of household waste in half of the districts, said it was “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.