CGT Continues Strike Against New Waste Collection Agency, City of Marseille Reacts

The CGT is campaigning to abandon the new waste collection agency that was published last March.
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Le Figaro Marseille

He expects to see the Old Port covered in enough trash to horrify many people. Several weeks after filing a strike notice for the waste collection professions, the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) in a press release that the protest movement would continue this Tuesday, at 24 pm.arrival of the Olympic flame at the Old Port.

“The strikers, meeting in a general meeting yesterday afternoon (Monday), decided to continue the strike movement until the city receives the CGT.”confirming to Figaro Véronique Dolot, CGT waste collection section coordinator. “The city, which disrupted the household waste collection system, has decided not to see the strikers. They had already refused to consult with field representatives on this subject last year, who now want a complete stop to the new system as well as a review of the organisation.she told.

At the end of March last year, the city of Aix-Marseille-Provence was in the chair Martin Vassalon the shapes of a a new way of collecting waste in Marseillejudgement “more efficient” due to a reduction in waste collection by garbage trucks in some areas of the city of Marseille. This reorganization, strongly condemned by Marseille city hall who charged a metropolis “disorganized” waste collection, also being challenged by several representatives who also want an increase in the hardship rate to 30% and the statutory unionization of all contractual workers.

A “small” center of strikers

Knowingly, the capital of Aix-Marseille-Provence pointed to Figaro that the situation was gradually resolving on the streets of Marseille, despite the renewal of the strike movement. The strikers, who were around thirty Monday according to a source in mainland Francenow mostly based in the 4th and 5th arrondissements of the city.

“Only a small number of strikers remain”sweeping the city, explaining that garbage truck rounds continued this Tuesday and that there should not be “of concern” due to the holiday associated with the arrival of the Olympic flame. In an interview given to him Provence the mayor of Marseille had admitted that he feared that the move would continue with a view to holding the ceremony. “I would like this to stop very soon. The time is bad and I would like to resume work so that the city is clean.”named Benoît Payan.

The city also banned action “reckless” strikers, even referring to the services of the police headquarters to try to ask the officers at the stop. The flame, for its part, should reach an old port that has been cleared of rubbish, the area already suspended by the authorities a few hours before the arrival of the three-masted White in Marseille waters.