"It's a total ignorance, or else it's sadism to want to make people work until that age". Paris's garbage collectors, who have been on strike since 6 March, are extending their strike until 20 March. "We're staying in the dock to block the country," they sing during lunch on the picket line. "If it's possible for garbage collectors to do another two years, Parisians can hold out for one, two or three, four, five more weeks." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES