TO Paris And waste emergency. The Garbage collectors are on strike against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform has filled the streets with rubbish: in the French capital it would be 5,600 tons of garbage not collected. Sanitation workers’ protest against the government’s decision to gradually raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 has reached the eighth straight day.
Three incinerators on the outskirts of the capital, Ivry-sur-Seine, Issy-les-Moulineaux and Saint-Ouen, will remain closed until at least Wednesday. “What will end the strike is Macron withdrawing his reform. If so, Paris will be clean again very quickly,” said Règis Vieceli, general secretary of the CGT-FTDNEEA trade union, of the Le Parisien newspaper. The same CGT recalls that garbage collectors can retire at 57. An age that would rise to 59 if the contested pension reform were finally passed.
You risk being invaded by rats According to Le Parisien, the mobilization will take several more days. “Our top priority is the issue of public health,” said Colombe Brosse, the city councilor in charge of street cleaning. “We’ve put most of our effort into keeping the grocery stores clean in every part of the city,” Brosse added. Many specialists have already sounded the alarm about the danger of rat reproduction.