Natalie Garci'a
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The basic companies of Guayana require serious policies to be removed from the present crisis

In view of this film of “terror” union leaders of the companies of holding company CVG express their points of view.

Alfredo Spooner, secretary of organization of Sintraferrominera; Henry Aryan, labor director and secretary of organization; Gerald Perez, Secretary General of Sutralum; Antonio Rivas, Secretary General of Suprabaux and Eloy Grove, Secretary General of Sintraori (Minerven) give their point of view of how it is the panorama, what the workers can do and what the unions can do, to confront and to rise to the factories that they give to eat to thousands of people and who motorize a part of the economy of the country.

Panorama that visualizes
Antonio Rivas. “The administrations that there are in the companies do not allow that we pay a very encouraging future for the attention to CVG Bauxilum and the sector aluminum, mainly considering that Alcasa has ten months that the national Government does not pay, if in addition there is no a policy in which the Mibam, pays what we provided to him to Alcasa, for us will be very difficult to rise to us single, unless they inject money to us. That is what we see”.

Elby Grove. “They are leaving a broken company, I say and it because we do not have box flow. They are possible to be filled ínfulas saying that we have tons of gold, but the kilos of gold are of the State and what we have for the new contract discussion it is the box flow, and if they think to put the lie that this is socialism, it is socialism but to fill to the pockets they, and I say they because that socialism who apply has to the worker jodido not even… when we were closed we went of the date to receive, as it happened in December, and that us it would have to hurt because Venezuela is of all, and support to the President of the Republic, but there are questions where I will not remain been silent”.

Henry Aryan. “What it is happening in Alcasa is unusual, they are removing from the savings of the workers to pay the list. In more than an occasion we have sent SOS to the government, but I do not believe that they spend three months so that the situation is demonstrated that there is at the moment and more if run of dismissal of workers is run, a list reduction. I would say like minister Rodolfo Sanz that already we arrived at the “llegadero” and needed to go by the rescue of the companies of aluminum, because Alcasa is dragging to Bauxilum, Carbonorca, to Venalum, are all the companies those that they require of investment, so this 2009 will be a difficult year”.

Alfredo Spooner. “This 2009 we decided that the day of work of Monday through Friday guaranteeing the jobs of 6 thousand three hundred workers will be reduced. We hope that the things improve for the second trimester and that the national production is increased. Our priority is to take care of the jobs. Tomorrow - today we left to Caracas to introduce the collective hiring before the Ministry of the Work and hoped that the workers have their benefits and the pensioners, to those who is taken to them for the first time into account”.

Gerald Perez. “We are in crisis, but to the president - Carlos Acosta- was called on to direct to him to a company with a serious situation… but we are going to handle the situation. We guarantee that from now until March or April we are going to place again to Venalum in the rug of the production of aluminum. We are working united company, workers and unions.

We see this year with optimism, we are going to construct the unique contract that is the priority, are going away to cancel bonds, we are going to discuss Sundays and mainly we are going to maintain the productions, we are going to offer a plan of brings back to consciousness for all ".

Roll of the workers
Antonio Rivas. “The workers we are arranged to rescue to the company, the 99 percent of the workers we would be arranged to sacrifice benefits as long as it goes of the hand with a policy that recovers the sector aluminum. Without the contest of the workers and the national Executive it is impossible to remove to the company.

Now we are arranged to make sacrifices, but that sees, so to speak, obtaining the profit of that sacrifice, not a sacrifice so that it is continued wasting, so that is continued wasting because we would not do anything, would be like sandarac tree in the sea. Clear that we are arranged but with coherent policies to enrumbar the plant ".

Elby Grove. “It is hour to be on the awares as the president says, the workers must put stop to that makes it bad in the company where they toil. Although president Chávez chooses a person is necessary to say when he is making it bad, to say to minister east Sanz to Sir is making it bad from the start of the principles, because in Minerven incredibly although we were helped with the production of Remevin and the Camorra we did not arrive at the goals of the 2008”.

Henry Aryan. “As always the workers must have a protagónico paper, is necessary to leave to the inner doors, to march, to demonstrate that what is in game they are our jobs, they are 20 thousand uses if not more in all the country. And it is that we are so bad that nor the National Assembly has taken plenary to the situation of the companies, there does not discuss to the subject, the call is to that they fight”.

Alfredo Spooner. “We have had meetings and as equipment we think that we do not do nothing with a company in bankruptcy, and between the workers and the company it must look for most advisable to maintain the jobs. The crisis has their time of duration, it is not the first time that FMO crosses one, nor is the first time that is world-wide crisis, in an occasion it had to close the plant of briquets, pellets and is what we do not want and what they must be understood”.

Gerald Perez. “The worker of Venalum has to his company in the heart, he wants and he values to its company and the paper that realises will be fundamental, we must understand that we are in world-wide an economic crisis. It is certain, always we were privileged people, always we had fat cows but the previous presidency was the one that did not leave the reserves in the top”.

And the unions what
Finally in this compilation of opinions it was consulted to him to the leaders about the paper of the unions first of all this I sketch than he will be the 2009, the answers are of most many-colored.

Antonio Rivas. “The unions must be honest and transparent, must be on a par of the workers, the benefits. Here no unionist must try to interpose his personal interests over the group. He is vital that is on a par of the commitment in which it is the company, that is the paper that they must independently play the unions that are chavistas or of opposition”.

Elby Grove. “We do not have to follow in the same, it is necessary to make a fight to recover to the company, to improve the situation, to obtain the technological adjustments, to save to the companies of the bad administrations, is necessary to leave the side differences and not to fall to him to lies to the workers”.

Henry Aryan. “We are calling to the federation, we must separate the political differences to approach us in a single table, to coordinate towards where we are going to enrumbar to the workers. We have a force, a sleepy giant, and that giant is of the size of the sector aluminum”.

Alfredo Spooner. We must preserve the uses and the guarantees that are in collective contracts. We are now with a wage increase that is going to compensate the reduction of the labor day, is really going to lower to the dividends a 50 percent less, but we have spoken with the company to alleviate the debts of the workers, who get into debt themselves in the measurement than they win ".

Gerald Perez. “I am going to speak clear like who is 21 years old in this company, I have spoken with many union companions and we must maintain the situation with calm. We cannot throw to the abandonment our companies, we cannot be thinking about unemployment for today and hunger for morning. At the moment we deserved to seat to us to negotiate with the employer, to look for agreements and to be united all the companies”.

Whereupon word relates the 2009?

Antonio Rivas. “Difficult, this it is a difficult year by everything what we must confront”.

Elby Grove. “Fatal, because we do not have flow of box in the company and that is what we needed to stay”.

Henry Aryan. “Decisions, because the 2009 are a year of decisions and unit”.

Alfredo Spooner. “Progress, we needed to fight to produce although we are in crisis, all crisis has its time”.

Gerald Perez. “Optimism, I believe that for the second trimester we can overcome the situation”.

Found voices

After this collage of opinions one demonstrates that really the companies in Guayana require honest and conscious, working unions worried and prepared to sacrifice itself not to lose the bread of their children, but as well people who demand their rights and know to defend them when it is necessary.

With respect to 2009 every one it focuses as better it seems to him, some put to expensive good bad weather and others only confront the difficult reality in full knowledge that it is time, but only the course of the months will say who had the rightest optics.