Another take on the Venrus article...scroll down to the accusations of corruption (i.e. missing gold). It seems that in retrospect the good old days days of the Hecla "leap of the frog" don't seem all that bad. All of this press on loud mouth union leaders and jailed ex-union leaders and not one article questioning the killing of thousands of jobs due to the cancelling of the Las Cristinas\Las Brisas Projects.....not to mention the billions in arbitration exposure incurred. Venezuela is the twilight zone. These people deserve whatever they get..

Union leadership supports workers who were dismissed from Minera Venrus
Section - Labor
Written by Valerio Pathé Carolina. Photo: Francisco Gonzalez
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 1:39

The union leaders called to join the concentration
Ciudad Guayana's unions will mobilize this Thursday to Tumeremo, in order to make a great call for all workers and trade union sectors in the region to be present in the prosecution, before the complaint made by the board of Minera Venrus, against the leaders of the Union of Workers of El Callao (Sintracallao), Edward Lee, Ruby Chirinos, Jose Infante and Alan Ortega.

In that sense, José Acarigua, labor director of Siderurgica del Orinoco "Alfredo Maneiro", said workers have given the battle so as not to criminalize the struggle of the working masses of Guyana and the rest of the country, "but has installed a government policy to criminalize trade union protest, so we totally opposed to this type of action against parents who make great efforts in the factory to produce wealth "determined.

Diary of events

Edward Lopez, secretary general of Sintracallao participated in the 2009 made a strong fight against transnational Hecla and removed it from the area, due to irregular situations, then the company comes Venrus, however, have one year by a number of complaints " and were dismissed on November 5 last year by the Labour Inspectorate Guasipati "determined.

He argued that many complaints have been posted for fraud, with more than 500 kilos of gold are missing and have five years without discussing collective bargaining, the low wages they receive because they earn only 1,200 Bolivars Fuertes, when an ounce of gold costs $ 1,400. Besides do not have within the plant safety equipment, coupled with the lack of investment in the company and labor terrorism exists.

Labor union

For its part, Rubén González, secretary general of the Union of Workers of CVG Ferrominera Orinoco (Sintraferrominera), stressed their solidarity with fellow Venrus. "It is a recurring practice patterns criminalize protest, so the union leadership of Guyana must understand that we need to unite for the welfare of workers and take responsibility to represent them in all conflicts that may have" settlement.

"They can get us out"

These four workers reported that their labor rights were violated because they are covered under the guise of trade unions and maintain a job security, a trade union and a tenure by collective agreement, and these three parameters were violated. The reasons attributed by the company to fire them, is by default to work.