“The interim for Agriculture, imposed by the investigation involving the now former councilor Luca Sammartino, must not be an alibi to justify another regional legislature of useless expectations and lost opportunities. Reforms like that of the Forestry Department cannot wait, politics cannot make the usual mistake: chasing emergencies and frantically, in vain, running for cover when it is too late while we should already be ready in Sicily, even more than in the rest of the country. , to face a summer at risk of drought, at risk of fires”.
The complaint
This is the complaint of the national secretary of Uila, Gabriele De Gasperis, today in Catania in the Uil “Mico Geraci” room together with the general secretaries of Uila and Filbi Sicilia, Nino Marino and Enzo Savarino, for the regional executive of the trade organization . The union representatives add: “We ask that we look at the present and the future. But we are always waiting for the forestry reform, as we have been hearing promises for months, to arrive at the Schifani council for approval and to be sent to the Ars for final examination. Or, we won’t wait until the end of spring to take to the streets to protest, once again together with the local administrators who with us were already protagonists of the great united mobilization SvegliaRegione ”.
De Gasperis, Marino and Savarino further underline: “The Uila, together with Fai and Flai, has assured all the regional political institutions of its contribution of ideas and maximum availability for discussion during the examination of a legislative proposal which is convincing. That text, however, has been ready for months and we are always waiting to know when it will come to the Government for a vote.” “With dozens of assemblies held across the island – they add – we exposed the content of the reform to forestry workers, who shared the innovations of that text but never hid their fears of another announcement without results from the Region ”.
The appeal to Schifani
From Uila, therefore, an appeal to President Renato Schifani: “In the next few hours, the regional government will indicate, as we have repeatedly requested, dates and deadlines for the transmission of the reform to the Ars. In the meantime, we want to reiterate the strengths of that text, based on more working days and more skills at the service of the territory and the Sicilians. Among other things, the passage for foresters from 78 to 105, from 101 to 128, from 151 to 178 days of employment guarantee is significant.
Three years after the reform, then, the workers will all be on 156 or 178 days or on permanent contracts, the current OTI. This should allow the stable presence, which we have always claimed, of a body of environmental protection professionals. A resource for our land, even outside the woods. The future regional public agency for forestry activities, in fact, will be able, among other things, to deal with the management of natural reserves and the planting of tree species on the lands of public and moral bodies, provided they are intended for public use, subject to an agreement.
Furthermore, restoration and improvement of public gardens, conservation, improvement and valorization interventions on land included in the territory of natural parks, forestation interventions for the production of wood, construction and management of processing or transformation plants for forest products, interventions aimed at environmental protection and improvement and the prevention of hydrogeological instability, care of parks and archaeological sites but also of rivers, streams and lakes”.
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