Guyana is not left

In a large meeting held yesterday in Sidor, workers accused the union leaders of "submissive and employers"

By: Damien Prat C / Guyana




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A large gathering of workers of Sidor, which occurred yesterday morning at the gate 3 of the steel did remember many great moments of a movement of workers was always combative and nothing submissive.

Emerging workers shift from 11.00 pm to 7.00 am and the entry point of the shift from 7 am to 3 pm, when managers psuvistas Sutiss union, led by José Luis Hernández, a meeting organized with platform and sound by a lawyer surnamed Diaz to convince workers to sign a libel lawsuit against some of Techint demanding labor liabilities that require Sidor.

The signature should be accompanied by the commitment of 250 strong bolivar-payroll-deduction for every worker to pay the claim.

The protest by the workers, the incessant booing, the complaint of many of them to speak to the accusations and union leaders of "submissive, employers, abounded in such a way that the lawyer decided to get off the stage and everything was completed in a hard claim to the union.

Yunis Hernandez, a veteran labor leader, head of the group Unity Matancera noted that employees called "the silent and genuflexa attitude" of the current directive Sutiss and many noted that according to reports coming from Buenos Aires, to which the government has remained silent, the agreement Techint Chavez not only for the payment of 1,970 million dollars to the trans-60% stake in Sidor, but there is a clause of "indemnity" which ensures that the Venezuelan government Techint shall not be liable for any claim of labor liabilities, net, liabilities or otherwise, and that is the Venezuelan State, who assumes all responsibilities.

"What demand will make if you already have Techint guaranteed indemnity", they shouted and demanded that the small group of trade union official "missed the golden opportunity" they had last Thursday to "talk straight to President Chavez, for report any irregularities that are occurring in Sidor and the ruin of aluminum. "

The voices of those who managed to climb the podium and speak, as well as those from the mass protests, noted that "there were seals to clap as a socialist course we want to remove benefits such as health services, education for our children.

Yunis Hernandez said that "first must suspend its profits HCM ministers, parliamentarians, senior government officials before we accept" and recalled the bad condition they are in public hospitals in and around Ciudad Guayana Bolivar State .

Since the nationalization, Sidor has lost between 25% and 30% of its production capacity. Also there was a consecutive series of accidents that have left five workers dead and several dozen injured in varying degrees.

Mibam Minister Rodolfo Sanz in a recent press conference rejected these accusations and said that "everything is going perfectly Sidor" but gave no figures differ from those known to occur based on the allegations.

"The movement of the steel workers have never been complacent or submissive. Colleagues who are directors and Sutiss PSUV militants have every right to that political affiliation, but not to miss the duty to represent all workers not to be complacent with the employer, "said the leader of that unit by adding Matancera "In short, the employer is the employer, whether government or capitalist, is multicolored or rojito. Sidor and Guyana are not going to leave or to remove appalled even disguised their conquests of socialism that outrage. "

MORE COMPLAINTS
Similar claims across all companies in the aluminum sector. Since the government did "teleshow with Chávez and several ministers, bringing together a very diverse group of union leaders filtering PSUV and discriminating and excluding most diverse, with militant organizations in the democratic alternative, independent and even supporters of government and to PSUV militants who were marginalized, have multiplied the voices that reject sectarianism and the fact that those attending the meeting left the criticisms and claims by the bankruptcy of the core businesses.

"Instead of going to clap their hands to redden, these comrades talk about the disaster that had lived in Bauxilum for the first time in its history failed to produce alumina for four consecutive days," reads the worker periodiquito The Sentinel, in that Last night the company had concluded that the union elections of the union Sutralúmina.

"NOT THE BRAZILIAN"
Press dispatches yesterday afternoon reflected in almost all news websites in Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela account for the words of President Chavez in his private meeting with Lula in the city of Salvador, and were heard by reporters because all to a technical error that allowed out in the translation system prepared for the press conference that would be later.

"In Venezuela we are in a phase of nationalization but that does not reach the Brazilian company," said Chavez, who also referred to the construction of capitalist magnate Emilio Odebretch calling him "Don Emilio," without the usual phrases that launches offensive in Venezuela for cover the private, between laughter and suggesting that "became socialist."