Case of construction workers in San Marino, Usl: “Procurement does not always solve problems”
“Procurement does not always solve problems”.
The says it Federservizi of the San Marino Workers’ Union following a meeting, together with the other individual trade unions of San Marino and a representative of the roadmen, held last Friday with the secretariat of state for the territory and the managers of the autonomous state company for public works.
The theme of the meeting, reads the union’s note, was “the proposal from the Aaslp management to review the job description of the roadmen”; according to the Local Health Authority, “it is in fact necessary to take measures in order to stem the degradation affecting many parts of our territory”.
As of today, in fact, “only 7 areas of the Republic stand out for being particularly cared for and this thanks to the presence of the respective roadmen; once there were as many as 34 of these figures, but as they have retired they have not been replaced by the state”, underlines the Local Health Authority, which then declares: “It is therefore surprising that in the Aaslp proposalinstead of thinking of expanding the workforce of the roadmen, it was decided rather to put in place an experiment that provides for the division of the territory into 5 areas, to which a couple of roadmen should be assigned for each, doubling is probably correct, but su are really manageable as a service; our Republic does not have a ‘Roman plan’ and a certain number of convoluted km are not exactly manageable like those with a grid”.
And again: “In this way the risk is to see even those areas that are now perfectly in order deteriorate, without however solving the problem of the entire territory because 10 people evidently cannot do the work diligently carried out in the past by 34 workers, even if actually 34 were perhaps a bit too many. Also, as they themselves told us, the roadmen ask to be equipped with adequate means to carry out their work with precision and punctuality. Instead, it is the intention of the Aaslp to outsource the most important works to external firms. We believe that the roadmen are extremely tied to their territory, which could often be the garden of their own home. It is unreal to think that those who come from outside can have the same care of our territory, by its very different nature from that of Italian towns, as that lavished by those who know the places and have, as a citizen, a primary interest in the decorum of their country”.
“We look forward to another meeting soon, even with data in hand on any costs for tenders compared to the costs for strengthening the internal workforce or for the acquisition of missing means. Proposals and modifications are welcome, provided they bring real benefits”, finally affirms the Federation of Services of the San Marino Union of Workers.