Despite the end of the strike, bins in the streets of Marseille at Christmas
There will be no Christmas without garbage cans in Marseille. If an end-of-conflict agreement was signed Monday evening by Force Ouvrière, the majority union among garbage collectors, and the last to resume work, the effects of the strike are still visible.
Several sectors of Marseille remain soiled by piles of orders as Christmas Eve approaches. France Bleu Provence has noticed again garbage cans not collected in the 6th arrondissement, in the streets perpendicular to the rue Paradis.
Sickness, covid cases, leave to weld
The Metropolis estimates that 2,000 tons of orders have accumulated since the start of the movement at the end of November. It must be said that waste collection has not been optimized since the presumed return to work. Not all agents are mobilized because “sick leave, several covid and contact cases, end-of-year leave”, we explain to the Metropolis.
Under these conditions, the requisitions ordered by the police headquarters are ineffective. If you add to that private companies, called in as reinforcements, like Derichebourg, in need of personnel. We understand why the Marseillais are spending a new Christmas with overflowing trash cans.
Moreover, many residents already fear the combined effect of gift wrap and cardboard with the rain announced for New Year’s Eve.