Paris Garbage Workers to Suspend Strike Against Pension Reform

  • Unions to suspend strike due to dwindling number of strikers
  • Garbage piles finally getting smaller in the French capital
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After days of walking around bins overflowing with uncollected rubbish, Parisians may soon hear the familiar rumble of garbage trucks making the rounds to pick up the trash in their neighborhoods.

Garbage workers in the French capital are suspending their strike against pension reform starting Wednesday due to a dwindling number of strikers, easing a long standoff that has left the city with heaps of garbage for weeks.