Garbage tarnishes Paris luster as pension strike continues

The City of Light is losing its luster with tons of garbage piling up on Paris sidewalks.

The creeping squalor is the most visible sign of widespread anger over a bill to raise the French retirement age by two years.

Sanitation workers say two more years is too long for the essential but neglected services they render to all.

Unions are organizing their eighth nationwide protest marches since January, and the third in nine days.

If the pension reform is voted through, “Things will happen,” Aubisse said. “That’s sure and certain.” ___ Alex Turnbull in Paris contributed..