To show that after three months of demonstrations, actions and strikes, and whatever the Constitutional Council decides on Friday April 14, the mobilization against the pension reform is not over, the Parisian waste sector relaunched on Thursday April 13, a new strike movement.
The first, from March 6 to 29, had caused a spectacular pile of waste in half of the Parisian districts, those collected by garbage collectors in the public sector. A notice was also filed by an inter-union CFDT-CGT-FO-CFE-CGC at Veolia. It’s about launching a “act 2” around the idea, summarized by a leaflet: “We are not heard in demonstration, we will put Paris under the trash cans. »
As during the previous movement, the strike notice of the CGT in the waste and sanitation sector in Paris is articulated with a movement to block incinerators, whose agents are linked to the energy sector. A strategy that can only work with the substantial support of demonstrators from other sectors, because the strikers themselves cannot block the garages, at the risk of committing an offense.
Incinerators blocked on Thursday
Thus Thursday morning, many students from the Ile-de-France region were present at the meetings given from 5:15 a.m. to block the exit of public dump trucks from their garages in Aubervilliers or Romainville, then at 8 a.m., in front of the incinerators of the inner suburbs. (Saint-Ouen, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Ivry-sur-Seine) to prevent the trucks leaving from dumping their collection.
In the end, if the town hall of Paris does not communicate figures of strikers, it indicated to the World that all the incinerators were blocked on Thursday afternoon, as well as ” some “ garages – 116 dumpsters came out on Thursday morning out of a total of around 200.
A few dozen police officers were present around each garage on Thursday morning. In Aubervilliers (collection of 7e and 18e arrondissements), seven people were arrested, including four union activists, during what the CGT denounced as “a gratuitous and dangerous charge” police officers. “Collection managers and the government are making a serious mistake by playing provocations to discourage mobilizations”, insists the trade union center in a press release.
“We must join militant groups”
Its new secretary general Sophie Binet also came on Thursday morning to support the strikers in the garages and at the incinerator of Ivry-sur-Seine. “The employees continue to mobilize. It is certainly not the last day of the mobilization, unless of course Macron announces that he is withdrawing his reform”, she said in a press conference, believing that the latter “would not come out of the Constitutional Council unscathed”. This movement “will result in victory one way or another, out the door or out the window » she added, praising the surge in union membership and the records of strikers and protesters who will leave “traces in terms of the balance of power”.
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