Government to submit Forest Firefighters Charter to Congress in September

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The government has promised to hold the first session of the Congress of Deputies next September. Basic Code of Forest Firefightersto the object To improve the working conditions of these workersUnion sources assured Efe today.

This is the main outcome of the meeting held this Thursday by Hugo Morán, Minister of State for the Environment, with a delegation from the Center for Independent Trade Unions and Civil Servants (CSIF), the Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) and the General Union. Workers (UGT) at the headquarters of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Struggle (Miteco) in the middle of a bushfire wave.

According to the unions, the Government will also, at the planned sectoral conference with the autonomous communities, same end of Julythe execution of this Statute exchange positions with regional authorities so that they can make their own contribution to the development of.

CSIF, CCOO and UGT “emergency route”since the statute “It was a legislative commitment that should have been submitted a long time ago”.

At the meeting, the union delegation also conveyed other necessary demands to Morán. improve fire fighting like an increase number of soldiers anyone better coordination between central, regional and municipal governments

So far this year, woodland destroyed by fires,satisfied with high temperatures According to satellite imagery estimates from the European organization EFFIS, close to 200,000 hectares from the two heatwaves hit so far.

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