The garbage collectors’ strike that affected large areas of Paris will end as of tomorrow, Wednesday, after 23 days of unemploymentas announced today by union General Confederation of Labor (CGT).
The end of the strike occurs “for responsibility”according to a union statement, in which Workers waste management in the capital They assure that their mobilization “has not finished” and they appreciate the support received from the population despite the inconvenience caused. The strike began on March 6within the protests of workers and unions against the pension reform promoted by the Government, and at its peak affected half of the twenty districts of the capital, those that do not have the service in the hands of contracts with companies private. Up to 10,000 tons of garbage they came to accumulate in the streets of that half of Paris. On the other hand, the mayor, Anne Hidalgo, had reported this same Tuesday that there were still 7,000 tons to collect.
However, the action of the prefect of paris police, that legally forced contingents of municipal service employees to work and sent riot police to open garages for garbage trucks and vacating the three waste incinerators in the Paris region, little by little made the strike less important.
The garbage accumulated in the streets was used as a weapon, especially by students, to spread it and set it on fire on some of the days of protests, and thus intensify the effect of the mobilizations against the pension reform, especially after its approval by government decree in the absence of a sufficient parliamentary majority.