06/11/2024 – 12:48
The employees of Ibama, ICMBio and the Forestry Service called assemblies in the States for this week, to decide whether to carry out a general strike in the federal environmental area on June 24th. According to Ascema, an association that represents civil servants, each state will choose two representatives to form the command of the national strike. The states’ decision should take place by this Friday, the 14th.
The call for strike was made after another round of unsuccessful negotiations with the federal government. The category has been mobilized since January, having interrupted inspection activities, maintaining only bureaucratic office activities. The category seeks to enhance an environmental career.
The servers even analyzed the proposal of the original request, to equate it with the National Water Agency (ANA). The government, however, maintained an even smaller adjustment proposal, which was rejected by civil servants. “The proposal was rejected. Last Friday they sent the letter that the negotiation was terminated, unilaterally”, say sources close to the negotiations heard by the Estadão/Broadcast.
A live orientation for employees and mobilization of the base will be held this Wednesday, 12th. Sources stated that they feel that there will be a great support from employees, considering that this strike movement has been taking place since January.
Concessions are affected
The server shutdown directly affects the environmental licensing of large projects in the energy sector, putting into question not only the schedule of the mega transmission auctions held by the government since 2023, when more than 17 thousand km of new ones were contracted, but also in the works of the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) and in the increase in deforestation.
“It’s already been having an impact since January. Some work at inspection and licensing posts is no longer being done, because it was decided that it would only be bureaucratic work, it already has an economic impact and on the PAC”, say sources.
According to this source, these impacts do not just happen as a result of the strike. “The servers were already strangled. As the salary is lower than in other areas, people pass a competition and leave, working in other areas. They are highly overworked. The mobilization did not cause this, the deterioration of the environmental category that led to this”.
Ascema estimates approximately 3,500 active processes, also involving wind farms, thermoelectric plants and oil and gas production projects, which are already being affected, even without an actual strike.
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