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Miners call for changes in mandate sector
QUITO. Hundreds of miners marched yesterday toward the Carondelet Palace to protest the term suspended for six months all kinds of mining.
May 07, 2008
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The workers said they could not wait any longer and demanded changes to the mandate.
The Government committed itself to be ready for the text of the new Mining Act before the deadline of six months before the mandate in the Constituent Assembly, which lifted the mining concessions.
The offer was made by President Rafael Correa, before hundreds of miners who marched yesterday to the Palace of Carondelet.
It is the Executive looking for alternatives to alleviate the situation of people who lost their jobs by the closure of mining operations.
The request for workers is to reform the mandate and allow certain mining activities, while the new legal framework structure. But the regime maintains its refusal and what it offers is rather incorporate a large proportion of workers in mining projects that boosts public works (road rehabilitation, construction of infrastructure projects, etc.).
The Deputy Minister of Mines, Jose Serrano and ratified it and explained that this offer to meet the Government is notifying the mining companies so that within 72 hours to submit all information related to staff in his office.
The idea is that these data with the system determines where to direct the workforce that was free.
This option, however, does not convince all of the miners who believe the government can not cover all sources of jobs that were lost. "Estamos hablando de doscientos mil trabajadores y sus familias... "We are talking about two hundred thousand workers and their families ... The alternatives offered are long and medium term and in the meantime what we are doing, "said Angela Huayllas leader miner Ponce Enriquez, in Azuay.
He explains that another of the things that the Government offers is the delivery of a bonus pay, which may not revealed.
Correa admitted that the implementation of the mandate "have paid just for sinners", but this fact justified the need for large mining companies conduct their activities responsibly and sustainably.
Dialogue miner
With the participation of representatives from mining companies, environmentalists and authorities sectors, was launched yesterday in Machala the second meeting of the Mining Forum, which seeks to give a statutory body to the new Mining Law.
The dialogue concluded today in Zaruma.
QUITO. Hundreds of miners marched yesterday toward the Carondelet Palace to protest the term suspended for six months all kinds of mining.
May 07, 2008
QUITO
The workers said they could not wait any longer and demanded changes to the mandate.
The Government committed itself to be ready for the text of the new Mining Act before the deadline of six months before the mandate in the Constituent Assembly, which lifted the mining concessions.
The offer was made by President Rafael Correa, before hundreds of miners who marched yesterday to the Palace of Carondelet.
It is the Executive looking for alternatives to alleviate the situation of people who lost their jobs by the closure of mining operations.
The request for workers is to reform the mandate and allow certain mining activities, while the new legal framework structure. But the regime maintains its refusal and what it offers is rather incorporate a large proportion of workers in mining projects that boosts public works (road rehabilitation, construction of infrastructure projects, etc.).
The Deputy Minister of Mines, Jose Serrano and ratified it and explained that this offer to meet the Government is notifying the mining companies so that within 72 hours to submit all information related to staff in his office.
The idea is that these data with the system determines where to direct the workforce that was free.
This option, however, does not convince all of the miners who believe the government can not cover all sources of jobs that were lost. "Estamos hablando de doscientos mil trabajadores y sus familias... "We are talking about two hundred thousand workers and their families ... The alternatives offered are long and medium term and in the meantime what we are doing, "said Angela Huayllas leader miner Ponce Enriquez, in Azuay.
He explains that another of the things that the Government offers is the delivery of a bonus pay, which may not revealed.
Correa admitted that the implementation of the mandate "have paid just for sinners", but this fact justified the need for large mining companies conduct their activities responsibly and sustainably.
Dialogue miner
With the participation of representatives from mining companies, environmentalists and authorities sectors, was launched yesterday in Machala the second meeting of the Mining Forum, which seeks to give a statutory body to the new Mining Law.
The dialogue concluded today in Zaruma.
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