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Venezuela: Mining sector workers protest wage issues
Workers in state enterprises aluminum and iron from Venezuela on Tuesday entered its second day of protests over the failure to meet salary commitments made in a collective agreement and the "precarious" working conditions.
Since Monday morning, some 2,000 workers of the Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana (CVG), which comprises the mining sector enterprises in the country, have joined these actions to "call the resources to meet the employment benefits" , told AFP Henry Arias, a union leader.
Arias said at the rally, which took place in front of the headquarters building of the CVG, were arrested "five union leaders" by the National Guard, who guarded the area.
According to local press, the arrest would have occurred when representatives entered the building to find CVG Mines Minister, Rodolfo Sanz, who "did not respond to the request of the group."
The five detainees are in addition to another leader, Ruben Gonzalez Ferrominera union, who was arrested last week for allegedly fomenting riots in a plant of the company.
Según Arias, "el gobierno va a decir que estas protestas responden a fines políticos para así tratar de librarse de sus responsabilidades".
In August, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced that the aluminum five public companies receive a total of 250.4 million dollars from the Chinese-Venezuelan financial fund, which both governments signed in 2006 with an initial capital of 6,000 million.
Arias said that "resources do not stop going down, while workers give all for all" but the Board of Alcasa, an aluminum companies, said it has "built a coherent plan for sector recovery, without specifying the amounts to invest.
The plan aims at an early stage "the maintenance of operations" and then "restore the plants and in turn increase production in each of the companies," described Cesar Aguilar, president of Alcasa.
Workers in state enterprises aluminum and iron from Venezuela on Tuesday entered its second day of protests over the failure to meet salary commitments made in a collective agreement and the "precarious" working conditions.
Since Monday morning, some 2,000 workers of the Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana (CVG), which comprises the mining sector enterprises in the country, have joined these actions to "call the resources to meet the employment benefits" , told AFP Henry Arias, a union leader.
Arias said at the rally, which took place in front of the headquarters building of the CVG, were arrested "five union leaders" by the National Guard, who guarded the area.
According to local press, the arrest would have occurred when representatives entered the building to find CVG Mines Minister, Rodolfo Sanz, who "did not respond to the request of the group."
The five detainees are in addition to another leader, Ruben Gonzalez Ferrominera union, who was arrested last week for allegedly fomenting riots in a plant of the company.
Según Arias, "el gobierno va a decir que estas protestas responden a fines políticos para así tratar de librarse de sus responsabilidades".
In August, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced that the aluminum five public companies receive a total of 250.4 million dollars from the Chinese-Venezuelan financial fund, which both governments signed in 2006 with an initial capital of 6,000 million.
Arias said that "resources do not stop going down, while workers give all for all" but the Board of Alcasa, an aluminum companies, said it has "built a coherent plan for sector recovery, without specifying the amounts to invest.
The plan aims at an early stage "the maintenance of operations" and then "restore the plants and in turn increase production in each of the companies," described Cesar Aguilar, president of Alcasa.
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