Fifteen organizations of the sector in the state Bolivar will be unified in a federation to integrate themselves to the organized workers.

• Isidro Casanova

With the intention of which the small auriferous, cooperative, mill and connected miners have labor protection and social, they discuss this first of May proposal to ask for inscription in the Bolivariana Federation de Trabajadores of Venezuela - FBTV-, informed the organizers into the First Regional Plenary session Bolivariano of the mining group of the state Bolivar.

The maximum event of the small mining settles tomorrow first of May in soothes of the Mining Unit of the South, located in Tumeremo and whose union 15 organizations of small mining of the municipalities of the South are affiliates. Within the proposal they emphasize the idea that an integrating federation is constituted, corresponding to an organism of second degree.

The organization of this plenary session of small mining is in charge of Antonio Rivas, Pablo Zambrano, Omelio Head, Isanel Medina, Gil Rose that finishes being elect president of the miners and to millers of the racket Tin Leaf 2, located in the south of Tumeremo, Sifontes municipality.

Integrating organization

Our informants expressed who the event anticipated for this Friday reunites many expectations because it is had with outpost proposals to be consolidating the rights of the small miners. They express that they take three proposals.

1. Organizational Redimensión of the Mining Unit of the South, cradle in the conception of which one becomes a federal union, integrating to all the mining, cooperative, mill and connected movements of revolutionary tendency for its corresponding inscription in the Bolivariana Federation de Trabajadores of Venezuela. They express that in this point the debate has to be based. The adoption of this proposal entails the aspiration to that legal function and position of agent under the march of a vertical structure is obtained.

2. That the miner of small scale the right is clear to him to the viable work since has been raised in different occasions. The recognition of the right to the work takes implicit to the commitment of the productive work and the protection of the environment.

3. To insist on the approval on the part of the National Assembly, of the project of reform of the present Law of Mines. This project was presented/displayed in the 2006, without it has had answers. This project among others raises benefits, that to the small miner and artisan miner, facilitates the social development to him with legal base. Basically that to the miner is considered him like a worker and is protected by the instances that treat this matter.

Coexistence of the mining in all the scales

The mining proposers, that offered the present details, have come maintaining that the mining working can be viable at all the levels. The great industry that correspond to the investment, the small mining that in some cases could be subsidiary and following the mining artisan. They express that representing of the diverse levels they will be understood, for which strategically exists ample experience of investors allied with small mining.

Legal base would avoid upsettings

This first plenary session was summoned when still it stays in public claim, the caused damages to mill equipment property of small miners, fact happened towards San jOse de Anacoco. This reclamation of indemnification stays in organs superiors, which, most probable, gives rise to an ample debate inasmuch as the mills are inserted in the organizations of the sector

The mining leaders assure that while this sector is not protected by estatus legal, they will be able to follow itself presenting/displaying disagreeable episodes when, of violent way, some authorities take part. They take into account that near 80% of the small mining works of illegal way when not having productive areas assigned by Mibam nor the environmental permissions. They consider that while this situation stays, to the miner him can happen any thing, based on which they are illegal.

The organizers will propose that in the new organizational context, to the small miner are contemplated regional and national rights to him, taking into account that are productive workers with incidence in a social management directed to safeguard their familiar picture.