In total, at least 5400 tons are currently accumulated on the sidewalks of many neighborhoods. Paris due to a strike of workers collecting garbagecreated as part of the mobilization against the reform of the pension system, which the government Emmanuel Macron.
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In addition to collectors. garbagethree incinerators are also stopped at the gate Pariswhich explains why bags take up the entire sidewalk in some areas.
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Municipality agents collect garbage in half of the city and the other is run by private borrowers.
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How in Parisother French cities affected by collection stop garbagebut the mobilizations also cover other sectors since last Wednesday.
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CGT reminds that pickers and drivers are currently garbage they can retire at 57 with no bonuses, an age that will be deferred to 59 if the pension reform is approved.
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Project promoted by the president Emmanuel Macronaims to defer the retirement age from 62 to 64 years by 2030 and is pushing forward by 2027 the requirement to defer 43 years (rather than 42 as before) to receive a full pension.
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“The vast majority of employees wasting Y aguas have a life expectancy that is 12 to 17 years lower than other workers,” the union stresses.
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collectors garbage “They were the first victims of this reform” because “many times they started working young” and “they do more difficult work than other people in offices,” says Christophe Muterde, an 18-year-old student.
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“It’s terrible, there are rats and mice here,” says Romain Gaia, a 36-year-old pastry chef. However, he believes that the fact that collectors garbage working longer is “crazy”.
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“They have every reason to go on strike” and “maybe they should extend it even longer,” says the pastry chef. These are “people who usually have no power, but if they stop working, they will have real power,” he said of the situation in Paris.
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The French Senate (upper house) approved on Saturday a controversial reform pushed by the president. Emmanuel Macronwhich still needs to be voted on in the National Assembly (lower house), possibly on Thursday.
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Source: RPP
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