Oil tankers demand payments and paralyze 8 wharves in Zulia

Oil tankers of east denounced that Mintrabajo has not summoned to the unions and Pdvsa to initiate negotiation of the collective contract (File)

From Wednesday in the Eastern Coast of the Lake, Zulia state, near 1,200 oil tankers of contractors paralyzed eight wharves in protest by the breach in the payment of labor benefits.

The leader Glennys Rivero indicated that the workers do not receive additional payments by the extra days, that the pays are cancelled until with four weeks of delay, while the benefits of clinics were suspended, pharmacies and card of feeding.

The representatives of the contractors have informed to them to the workers who do not receive the payments on the part of Petroleums of Venezuela, reason why he becomes difficult the transferences of resources to his employees.

The affected ones are H & P, Papagallo Brothers, Marine Terra, Tricomar, Lacustrine Transport and Z & P, among others.

To these, according to it indicated Rivero, the management of Pdvsa has indicated to them that of the debt that only maintain the holding company with them they will recognize 60% of the same in three months.

Oil the state one informed that the remaining percentage will be discounted and taken like a aid on the part of the contractors with the social development.

The leader assured that the rumor of a possible paralyzation of activities on the part of the contractors circulates who operate in the Zulia state, as she made H & P in two of his drills located in Monagas.

Indeed, in the east of the country, the oil tankers of Anzoátegui protested in the accesses of the Refinery of Port the Cross, to demand the immediate discussion of the collective hiring, won from the 21 of January of this year.

The concentration was obtained after which each worker finished to his guard and the Secretary General of Sinutrapetrol, Raul Párica, explained that the manifestation looks for that the Ministry of the Work summons to Pdvsa and the unions to initiate the discussion of the new collective hiring.

It said that all the lapses established by the Law have been fulfilled and blamed the labor office of not making the call to begin the negotiations.

In Anzoátegui more than 5,000 workers they wait for by this benefit, whereas in the country a total of 75,000 people will be beneficiaries when signing itself the agreement.

Párica said that they are being organized and that every morning will make an assembly until obtaining that the authorities take care of their reclamations, and added that other contractual benefits are violated.

From 2005 evaluations do not become of performance, while the amount that is cancelled with the electronic card of feeding not has fit with respect to the inflation of the last year, as it indicates the collective convention of the oil workers.

Párica emphasized that until the moment the labor mass has had patience and tolerance, but alerted that the Ministry of Trabajo and Pdvsa must understand that the hour arrived to sit down to negotiate and thus to avoid that the negotiation becomes conflicting.

In addition, a group of 92 workers of contractors denounced next to Párica who hope to be absorbed by the industry from presidential Decree 5,200 of 2007. They will wait until after the break of Carnival to radicalize the protests in Pdvsa Port the Cross.

Suhelis Tejero Puntes/With Information De Miriam Rivero
THE UNIVERSAL ONE