For Syctom, it is the “definitive endof the movement on these two sites. Francois BOUCHON / Le Figaro
The collection also resumes in the 15th arrondissement. Nearly 10,000 tons of waste litter the streets of the capital.
Two of the three incineration plants treating waste in Paris reopened on Friday morning March 24 after two and a half weeks of strike against the pension reform, the agents having decided the end of the movement, indicates the metropolitan union Syctom. “The employees of Saint-Ouen and Issy have voted the end of the social movement and the factories are unblocked“, even if the factory of Issy-les-Moulineaux was the subject in the morning of a “small filtering, object of personnel outside the factory“says Syctom.
For Syctom, it is the “definitive endof the movement on these two sites, where the incineration furnacesshould reopen tomorrow“Saturday, employees waiting”to have enough waste in the pit“. These ends of movementwill allow us to return to completely normal operation“, hopes Syctom. As for the third site, the most important, in Ivry-sur-Seine, a general meeting scheduled for two p.m. must decide on the continuation of the movement, says Syctom again. The strikes and blockades of these exit points for the capital’s waste have contributed, along with the strike by the garbage collectors of the City of Paris, to the accumulation of waste in the capital for almost three weeks, to the great displeasure of the inhabitants and tradespeople.
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Resumption of collection in the 15th
The garbage collectors’ strike ends in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, has learned Le Figaro. The Pizzorno company, which manages the borough’s waste collection, announced the decision this Friday in a press release: “The General Management of the Pizzorno Environnement Group signed today with the union representatives of the CGT a protocol for ending the strike concerning the notice filed on February 27th.The private company specifies that this protocol takeseffect immediately with the return to work of the striking personnel“.
This Thursday, 9,600 tons of garbage littered the Parisian sidewalks, a volume that has been generally stable for a week despite the requisitions ordered by the police headquarters. In the evening, garbage cans were set on fire in the narrow streets of the Opera district, among the many violence and clashes with the police which marked the day of mobilization against the pension reform.
Full trash cans in the midst of a garbage collectors’ strike, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, on March 17, 2023. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP