The CGT of Public Services voted to renew the strike of the garbage collectors in Paris until next Monday, as explained to BFM Business by its general secretary, Natacha Pommet.
Garbage collectors in the capital have been on strike since March 5. The police prefect made searches at the end of last week, after the refusal of the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, to do so in support of the strike movement, when more than 10,000 tons of waste had accumulated in the streets of the city.
Despite the searches, trash cans still pile up on the streets of Paris.
9,300 tons of waste
On Monday, activists tied up trash cans to delay their collection by agents required by the prefecture while 9,300 tons of waste still littered the streets of Paris. A lower figure than last Friday but still very high.
Therefore, the strike continues while the pension reform was definitively adopted on Monday night after the rejection of a small minority of the inter-party motion of no confidence proposed by the deputy Liot Charles de Courson.
A new day of national mobilization is also scheduled for Thursday, March 23, while impromptu demonstrations in various cities in France have taken place every afternoon since last Thursday, the day Elisabeth Borne used 49.3 to broadcast her text.
Source: BFM TV
