Sanitation workers in Paris who have been on a garbage collection strike for 23 days amid a wave of protests across France began returning to work on March 29, union leaders announced.
In a press release translated by local media, the union representing sanitation workers, the CGT-FTDNEEA, said the three-week-long strike would be “suspended” as of Wednesday.
The strikes, which began on March 6 in opposition to French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age by two years, resulted in mountains of trash piling up along the streets of the French capital, some of which have reached up to 10,000 tons.
Some members of the sanitation union protested the measure by blocking three major garbage incinerators that serve the city as well as garbage truck depots….