Minerven workers in permanent assembly
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Since Tuesday the working masses are waiting for the cancellation of the benefit granted as compensation for low wages and delayed the discussion of collective bargaining.

Natalie Garcia
Photo William Urdaneta

Employees want a response by the non-payment of bonds Workers CVG Minerven gold company located in El Callao, went on permanent assembly on Tuesday, after the company still has not paid a bonus agreed to compensate for low wages and the delay in the collective agreements of both daily and payroll professionals.

Carlos Rodriguez, president of the Professional Union of Mineworkers (simpro) reported that pressure measurement aims to achieve a response from the company, which until now has not told the reason for the delay and whether it should be or not to administrative action.

"We've been told and President Luis Herrera ordered the transfer but has not been paid, but since he has not given us the face and has failed many times we do not know what to think, so we are looking forward to the waiting to tell us more information but in the meantime we will be in meetings, not only for the bond but because of lack of security measures in some areas and other failures. "

The ruling states that there is a serious delay in production this year just may extend to two thousand kilos of gold, instead of the 8 000 given as a goal. "We have gone back 19 years in production, in 2010 we will close with 2 tons of gold when we come to produce 4 tons, this is very negative for the company."

On the other hand said that employees are ready to help as long as conditions exist and the tools to do their job.

"Workers have the desire, but if we lack endowments, no inputs, there are problems in recruitment can not perform as we normally do, so we want answers and to correct the issues that demand, which are big things because if we to delve into the details would not work, because even this Friday 29 was delayed two weeks thing never happened and deposited it at 3:00 in the afternoon, so we care, "he said.

Rodríguez stressed that divestment is Minerven and this has reduced productivity, even though it has more mines to operate and more employees to attend. "Prior to 800 workers were producing 2 000 kilos of gold a year, we have more sites, more than 2 000 workers are producing the same as at the beginning of the decade of the 90's why we call for reflection," he said.