“From Monday 6 May they leave construction sites of the Reclamation Consortium.
For 2415 workers from the single hydraulic-forestry group it starts a new year of work which we hope will not repeat the 2023 delays in the payment of wages and will finally see the activity of the Regional Forestry Observatory to effectively practice consultation with trade unions and Municipalities”.
He supports it Carmine Ferrone (Pd), municipal councilor of Bella with responsibility for forestation and provincial councilor of Potenza.
Continues Ferrone:
“The activity of forestry construction sites and the work of the workers of the Reclamation Consortium they have a crucial role not only in the maintenance of urban and inter-farm green areas but also for traffic, in guaranteeing the safety and functionality of local infrastructures.
There cleaning green spaces helps prevent the risk of fires and floods, while improving the quality of urban and rural life.
They are services very useful for municipalities, especially for those with greater territorial extension and with vast districts and rural areas, which do not have their own financial resources.
The municipal administrations collaborate closely with the Reclamation Consortium to coordinate these operations and ensure that everything goes as smoothly and safely as possible.
In the next few days, starting from Monday 6 May, these activities will bring positive and visible results for all citizens.
We will monitor with renewed commitment as well on the timely payment of wages to forestry workers, so that the close discussion with the Consortium, the mayors and the trade unions takes place in the most effective ways to monitor every type of problem with the aim of intervening promptly and bringing the forestry construction site back to the center of regional planning in which the Consortium must play its role as a technical management body without replacing regional and local institutions.
What is needed anyway, together with the start of the turnover between retired workers and new hiresin order to broaden the number of workers, a forestry reform supported by a clear production vision and responding to the principles of innovation and efficiency will be able to ensure a decent salary for those who work there, the defense of the forest heritage from fires and hydrogeological instability, connected to the needs of the regional territory in which the protection of the environment and the multifunctional valorisation of public forestry complexes play a decisive role in the development policy, especially of internal areas”.
