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STRIKE - France - Marseille’s rubbish piles to be cleared as workers end strike
Ethiopia -Ethiopian Review -October 31, 2010: -- France’s massive strikes opposing changes in the country’s pension system showed some signs of weakening when Marseille garbage collectors and workers at three oil refineries voted to end their walkouts... The French finance minister announced that the strikes are costing the national economy up to 400 million euros ($557 million) each day, as workers continued to block other oil refineries and some trash incinerators to protest the plan to raise the retirement age to 62... Rotting piles of garbage – now at nearly 9,000 tons – are becoming a health hazard in Marseille, and trash collectors there explained their decision Monday to suspend their 2-week- long walkout as a response to the mounting hygiene problems in the Mediterranean city... The demonstrations against the retirement reform have brought millions into the streets, and polls have shown that most French people support the strikers. Meanwhile, the conservative Sarkozy’s popularity is plummeting... A poll published in Sunday’s Journal du Dimanche newspaper showed that only 29 percent of those surveyed were satisfied with Sarkozy’s performance. It was the French leader’s lowest rating since taking office in 2007...
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