Disagreement on minimum services in the strike foresters – The Farad

the forest officials and gangs outside the headquarters of the Government of Cantabria || File photo. CC.OO

Cantabria not know what your resources if you have to douse a fire of sufficient proportions to the government have to activate level 2, when there is a situation of “high risk” and “active fire”.

Some 310 forest officers and crews are on indefinite strike in their emergency services from Friday, July 1, for unpaid the guards among other matters, after negotiations failed to prevent the measure at the last meeting of the unions with the general director of Rural and the Director General of the Civil Service.

However, it seems that the Government of Cantabria and unions have the same approach on minimum services, so Comisiones Obreras has called a press conference for Monday on the situation of the general strike of actors and forestry crews.

on Friday, CCOO denounced the “barbaric” that the government “impose” one hundred percent of minimum services in the strike of forest. Thus, the head of the union section in the Government of Cantabria, Javier Gonzalez, expressed his disagreement with “a regional government that is supposed to be progressive.”

CCOO explained that the union is not ” strongly disagree “with this decision of the Government of Cantabria and has announced that it will appeal the order of minimum services as it is released.

for its part, the Government of Cantabria has rejected this weekend in a statement are established minimum service “one hundred percent” and said that “no established minimum services in general for the strike of the staff of the nursery and forestry crews”.

in this sense the Directorate General for the Environment stresses that only if the level 2 is activated by forest fires, ie, when there is a high risk and active fire, would establish the hundred percent effective, since otherwise “it would be irresponsible.

MOBILIZATION tO tHE PARLIAMENT

in addition, Monday July 4, crews and forest officials are summoned to a” large demonstration-concentration “to Parliament Cantabria, in memory of the proposition of law by citizens and approved unanimously on the payment of outstanding payments and the provision of human resources (the unions are demanding 45 seats of forest officers and 45 crews) and materials (vehicles, communications , etc.)

in this sense, the 117 foresters have “their payroll a day” since January but the government still owes them 320,000 euros, while the crews average debt is 11,700 euros and there are 187 workers, so it amounts to more than 2.1 million euros.

the union recalled that President of Cantabria, Miguel Angel Revilla, received the council May 31 along with the directors of Economy, Juan Jose Sota, President and Justice, Rafael de la Sierra and Rural Jesus Oria.

MOTIVES aND CONDITIONS oF tHE STRIKE

” what we will not respect, because they (the government) does not respect it because it is not paying, is the activation of emergency levels 1 and 2, because they are not paying, “Gonzalez stressed when CC.OO. announced the call for the strike.

The decision indefinite strike was adopted by a majority in separate workers’ assemblies held on 2 and 8 June.

This decision, which they have been “doomed” by “the lack of negotiations with the government” means that forest officials will work from 7.00 to 22.00 hours and will indefinite strike from 22.00 to 7.00 pm, when they will not attend “no fire”. And respect the schedule of guards Level 1.

crews, meanwhile, will work their regular working day from 8.00 to 14.00 and schedule guard level 1 and will be of indefinite strike from 14.00 to 8.00 hours on weekdays and Saturdays, Sundays and holidays 24 hours

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