Sharp divisions have emerged at a district in Paris after city council members disagreed on a proposal to name a street after Steve Jobs. To honor the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) co-founder, the mayor of the local district wants one of the streets named after the late tech icon. Councilors affiliated with the Communist and Green parties have, however, objected, citing the fiscal and social practices of the world’s biggest company by market capitalization. It was not determined if any of these communists and Green party activists have ever owned or used an Apple product or service at any time in their lives.

In their statement opposing the proposal, the left-leaning councilors said the decision to name a street after Jobs was misguided because of the heritage he had left behind. The leftists cited the labor conditions at the plants of the various Chinese sub-contractors who make Apple products and devices, without bothering to cite what the conditions of these people would have been like had they not had the option of working at an Apple factory. The councilors also brought up the tax avoidance methods Apple is alleged to have committed in Ireland.

Through his spokesperson, the mayor has defended the proposal saying that the former Chief Executive of Apple contributed greatly to humanity.

“Steve Jobs was chosen because of his impact on the development of personal computing and because he was a real entrepreneur,” a spokesperson for the mayor said.

The spokesperson also added that other streets would be named in honor of other high achievers. This would include Eugene Freyssinet, a French civil engineer who is credited with inventing the pre-stressed concrete. Others would include Alan Touring, a British code-breaker and computer scientist, Grace Murray Hopper, an American naval officer and a pioneer of computer programming as well as Ada Lovelace, a computer pioneer and mathematician from the UK.

Councilors to vote

The street that is proposed to be named after the tech icon is located in a technology startup hub in Halle Freyssinet that will be launched in early 2017. Halle Freyssinet was previously a cargo rail station whose origins date back to 1929. It is set to become one of the largest startup hubs on the European continent with approximately 1,000 startups expected to be housed there. The final decision on the naming of the street will be made after the council votes on the matter. The Green and the Communist parties currently enjoy a majority.

Apple Inc. closed the day at $109.9, having edged up 0.37% during Friday’s session.