Interim mayor against villagers maintaining Capital’s green spaces

The interim mayor of the capital Vasile Ursu required stopping the practice of using village workers for maintenance works of the green spaces. He notes that employees of the Green Spaces Management Association do not comply with their duties, and the situation can be improved by dismissing half of the staff, in order to make the other part to work appropriately. On Monday operative meeting, the interim mayor shored up his decision by high expenses for transporting villages, compared to their reduced activity. Ursu mentions that employees from villages come to the city „to drink a bottle of wine, and than to go home”. He required the new deputy mayor, Veaceslav Iordan, to assess the utility of continuing this practice, suggesting that villagers should work in villages. The deputy head of the Green Spaces Management Association, Eliferie Haruta, underlined that if village workers are excluded from this circuit, Chisinau will have to suffer very much, as city inhabitants are not willing to do such jobs. Multiple petitions to the Employment Office did not get any results, as city inhabitants, she highlighted, are not used to hoe, to mow, to plant and cut trees, they cannot stay all the time outdoors in bad weather conditions. The workers are transported from the villages with 12 ZIL trucks, which, practically, make only one way, as their drivers live in these villages. Referring to Ursu’s statement regarding workers’ laziness, Eliferie Haruta said that the majority of works are manual, and they get tires and after 40-50 minute of work they take a small break. In conditions when, daily, 2-3 workers are hired and other 4-5 are fired, their transporting is the single solution to keep up the green spaces of Chisinau, Haruta also underscored. At the moment, 500 employees are working at this Association, living in villages at a distance of 20-25 kilometers from the capital.