“The pride of belonging to the foresters’ audience, to be a fundamental sector for the protection of the environment, to return home with the awareness of having improved the life of the communities to which they belong”.
The Secretary Gabriele De Gasperis, Uila national contact person for forestationit doesn’t fit an idea of forest workers abandoned to their fate and – during the Uila Basilicata Forestry Delegates Active – poses some questions to politics, calling it to its responsibilities.
There UILA Regional Secretariat writes:
“If we are a country victim of drought, marked by floods and hydrogeological instability, with a complex orography of the territory, impoverished by a depopulation of internal areas, forestation can be part of the solution to the problem and not a cumbersome frill to be retired.
On forestation, a far-sighted ruling class should invest starting from the critical issues that the sector experiences on a daily basis.
We need a turnover because the audience is increasingly thinningadequate training, greater resources and a structured organization with precise and tangible objectives, new skills and professionalism are urgently needed.
Forestry cannot make do in regions like Basilicata and above all it cannot make up for the shortcomings of the Municipalities.
According to Gabriele De Gasperis, for the renewal of the next national contract, Uila will have to formulate a serious, concrete, common sense proposal.
Inflation has eaten up the purchasing power of workers: And an adjustment in wages is essential and it is essential that the younger generations have the opportunity to take advantage of seniority increases.
The regional secretary of Uila Basilicata Gerardo Nardiello highlighted the priorities to be addressed in the near future:
- forestation at the center of regional development policies,
- more guarantees for workers, also providing stabilization paths.
For this reason, the need to think about an Agency capable of guaranteeing that compelling vision for those who imagine a productive, attractive forest capable of creating an economy was underlined in many voices.
The workers underlined their commitment to ensuring that the fires do not spread, In the making urban centers decent, in cleaning the streets, in taking care of the forests and they ask Gabriele De Gasperis to take advantage of their problems and to safeguard a sector that is often the victim of precariousness and sometimes of institutional sloppiness.
Dignity, simply dignity and respect for rights: This is what the forestry workers demand.
And, for a union that walks alongside the people, it is truly the only objective to be pursued with strength and courage”.
