GNR / SEPNA: Career extinction. Rangers will strike.
The Rangers will go ahead with a strike against the extinction of career and defense allocating remuneration supplements related to the specific conditions of their work.
The day appointed for the strike of Rangers Nature Protection Service and the Environment (SEPNA), da GNR, and how it will take place will be explained next week, according to a communiqué of the Federation.
The revelation was made by the electronic newspaper OJE, citing Luis Fishing, the National Federation of Unions of Workers in Public Functions and Social, who advanced to the Lusa agency that the strike was a form of struggle chosen to face the refusal of the government to accept the demands of the Rangers, which "contrasts with the afanosas statements in defense of the forest and prevention of forest fires, both the Prime Minister, or other government members, in the last days".
The unions point out that a meeting, held on Wednesday, "The PS government refused to negotiate with the National Federation of Unions of Workers in Public Functions and Social reversal of extinction Ranger career process and the allocation of additional salary payments arising from their specific functions and working conditions".
"Insist on error extinction Ranger career, It is not to defend the forest, and the Government insists on this error, and insists on keeping [these professionals] numa situação de subvalorização no SEPNA / GNR ", stresses the Federation.
For the union structure, "It's quite clear that this service, are the elements of this career competently ensure the policing functions and the enforcement of forestry laws, hunting and fishing and ensure research into the causes of forest fires and the careful validation of burnt areas and damage to the forest ".
