They don't give up. Despite the suspension of the strike of garbage collectors against the pension reform, about thirty people carried out, this Wednesday morning, an action to block the incinerator of Issy-les-Moulineaux, southwest of Paris, despite the suspension of the strike of garbage collectors against the pension reform.

After allowing access to a garbage truck around 7:15 am, the demonstrators voted to block this site, which is one of three incineration plants treating waste in Paris and its suburbs.

"The only oven that has restarted is at risk of going out"

At 8:30 a.m., they let the trucks pass in 15-30 minute increments, which slows down the filling of the pit. The only furnace that has restarted is at risk of going out," said Fatiha Lahrech, CGT union delegate at the incinerator.

After three weeks of strike, the CGT announced on Tuesday the lifting of the movement of Parisian garbage collectors, for lack of strikers in sufficient number. But this suspension does not prevent other staff from carrying out actions to block incinerators.

In addition to Issy, a striking employee reported an action in progress for nine hours on the site of Ivry-sur-Seine, the largest of the three incinerators, southeast of Paris. "This is our response to the requisition," he said on condition of anonymity.

Railway workers, teachers and students among the blockades

As for the incinerator of Saint-Ouen, north of the capital, it was not subject to any blockage but was not able to treat new skips because of "full garbage pit", assured an employee of the site.

Contacted by AFP, the metropolitan operator in charge of household waste treatment, Syctom, was not able to comment.

Among the thirty demonstrators, outside the site, gathered early Wednesday in front of the incinerator of Issy-les-Moulineaux were railway workers, teachers and students, some wearing CGT or FO chasubles.

"This text must be withdrawn"

"It is unacceptable to work two more years, we must withdraw this text" reforming pensions, argued Frédéric Probel, secretary general of the CGT Energie Bagneux, who participated in the action.



"We will not be the generation that will allow the status of the IEG (electricity and gas industries, to which the staff of incinerators belongs), created in 1946 by the National Council of the Resistance and which allows arduous trades to leave earlier," added the trade unionist.

If the reform is implemented, incinerator agents with seventeen years of active service in the field, in "3/8" will have the right to retire at 59 years (with discount), against 57 years today.

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  • Pension reform 2023
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