The threat of a strike of the Housekeeping from Barcelona it’s becoming more real. To the call initiated by UGTthis Thursday the unions have joined BCC y CGT. Some 4,000 employees they are called to the parade and the organizers warn: “Chaos is approaching” in the city, say the members of CGT. If he City hall does not give in to its claims, the stoppages will begin on Sunday, April 24, at 9:00 p.m. and will last longer six daysuntil next Saturday, the 29th. In addition, it would be the first strike carried out by garbage collectors since 1982. While they do not reach an agreement, the council urges the neighbors to reduce their waste.
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a week without garbage collection which matches two weekends after returning to normal of the turismo after two years blank for the covid. And with another appointment that can make the strike run amok in the city from the first day: the stoppages begin a few hours after it ends Saint George. The remains left by Diada remains they will be the first of many piles of rubbish and waste that will accumulate and that will shout to the sky of citizenship.
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A dirty city for years
Los neighbours of Barcelona have been denouncing for years that the city it’s dirty. They translate it every year in the municipal barometer who collects his concerns. In the last study, in addition, the concern for cleanliness broke records. The alcaldese, There’s Colaucould not deny the majority and, given the excessive dirt on the streets, activated a shock plan in October 2021.
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In February of this year, the council made a new cleaning contract that, as of March, resulted in an increase in the frequency of actions and intensifying work in specific areas, such as the most touristy. In fact, this is how the new Barcelona cleaning service works, which includes more and new containers, and more actions with water.
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All these novelties, which have only been implemented for a few weeks, may be a dead letter as of Sunday: the garbage collectors’ strike may cause the streets to look sloppy, gray and dispirited again.
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This is how the Barcelona cleaning strike will affect the residents
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The strike will affect all essential cleaning servicesespecially to garbage collection and cleaning the public road.
Garbage collection includes all waste and containers. the waste general (the gray ones), such as those specific to recycling: organic matter (brown), paper and cardboard (blue), glass (green) and plastic (yellow).
It will also remain on ‘stand by’ free collection of furniture and household utensils that each street is assigned on a specific day of the week, from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Among the 4,000 employees who are called to stop work there is also the staff that is in charge of the sewer maintenance, which can be affected by the tons of waste that pile up in the streets. In addition, the problem can go further because the weather forecasts give rainy in Barcelona during the first days of the strike.
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Garbage of 1.6 million inhabitants. More than the tourists
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The most recent strike by cleaning services in Catalonia y spain took place last January in Salt (Girona) For 21 days the rubbish was not collected and the photographs of mountains of waste were daunting. Not to mention that the problems of public health they were obvious. The Girona town has 32,230 inhabitants. Barcelona, 1.6 million to which must be added the Thousands of Tourists who visit the city.
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Therefore, the situation that can be experienced in Barcelona is very worrying: lack of hygiene and extreme dirtiness, bad smells and the appearance of rodent animals. The mundane phrase “shit eats us” can be a reality as of Sunday.
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