For more than a week, residents of several Parisian districts have been smelling a foul odor in the street, after several days of strike by garbage collectors in the capital. Although it is not as bad as in the middle of summer, there are hygiene problems if the garbage collection is not carried out, raising fears of a rat invasion. And if your district is not concerned, it is most certainly because a private company takes care of your district, explaining the difference in treatment. Only the 2nd, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 17th and 20th are affected by the strike.
If on Friday, March 10, the city hall counted 4500 tons of uncollected waste, the garbage cans now litter the streets, to the point that it is necessary to slalom between the bags of waste. There were 10,000 tons of garbage this Friday, March 17, which corresponds to the weight of the Eiffel Tower, symbol of the city! And the waste is concentrated on the most touristic districts, around the Champs-Elysées, the Latin Quarter, or the Opera.
Some garbage collectors joined the general mobilization against the pension reform, alongside the RATP, the SNCF, the refineries or the airlines. But it is especially the garages in municipal management and incineration centers that are blocked, preventing the treatment of household waste. This situation is not likely to improve any time soon, as the government has forced through the pension reform with a 49.3, triggering spontaneous demonstrations throughout the country, notably at the Place de la Concorde.
Garbage collectors: a new notice of unlimited strike filed by the CGT from April 13
At the end of March, tons of waste were piling up in the streets of Paris, due to a strike of garbage collectors. The latter continue to protest against the pension reform: the CGT has filed a new strike notice from 13 April 2023. [Read more]
An inter-union strike is being organized this Tuesday, October 1, 2024. Demonstrators will set off from Place Denfert-Rochereau to demand higher wages and the repeal of pension reform. [Read more]
Garbage collectors: a new notice of unlimited strike filed by the CGT from April 13
Strike for wages: the route of this Tuesday's demonstration in Paris
