(12 Mar 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris - 12 March 2023
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2. Pan from Eiffel Tower to garbage pile
3. Mid of street with people walking past garbage piles, Eiffel Tower in background
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5. Mid of woman on bike riding past garbage piles
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9. Tilt down from Eiffel Tower to garbage bin
STORYLINE:
Piles of garbage littered the streets in Paris on Sunday as workers opposed to a contentious bill that would raise the retirement age in France continued strike action.
The bill, that would raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, got a push forward with the Senate’s adoption of the measure despite strikes, protests and the uncollected garbage piling higher by the day.
President Emmanuel Macron is undaunted by the trash piling up in the French capital and other cities from the strike by garbage workers and reduced services and supplies in other sectors like transport and energy.
Macron has refused a request by unions to meet with him, which leftist CGT union leader Philippe Martinez said amounted to “giving the finger.”
There has been no government response to a union request for a “citizens’ consultation” on the legislation, made Saturday after a new day of marches which drew a far smaller number of people into the streets than protest marches four days earlier.
The legislation must now move through tricky political territory with multiple potential outcomes.
It heads first to a committee of seven senators and seven lower-house lawmakers to find a compromise between the two houses’ versions of the text on Wednesday, when unions planned an eighth round of nationwide protest marches.
Unions maintain that French people are showing their opposition to the reform in the streets and through strikes.
AP video shot by: Masha Macpherson
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