CVG turns its back on claims of their workers
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Clavel A. Rangel Jimenez
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They hope to negotiate a salary increase and retirement plan of the corporation authorities
Like so many other times, workers of the Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana (CVG) marched to the headquarters to demand payment of liabilities and the discussion of the collective agreement.

No one answered because the president of the CVG, Joseph Khan, who is also head of the Ministry of Basic Industries and Mining (Mibam) dispatches from Caracas.

The protesters were told that the vice president of CVG, Haydee Valenzuela, also in Caracas, with which there was no response to their complaints.

The slogan of the workers is the same as a few weeks ago. They are demanding an increase in bond supply because it was outdated in time and a salary increase is stagnating because the CVG has not attended the negotiation of the collective agreement.

The organizing secretary, Miguel Medina, said that representatives of CVG have a year without performing in the Labour Inspectorate on the grounds that the executive, in a communication, prohibited any public discussion or contracts increases without the approval of President Hugo Chávez.

Such notification, signed by the Vice President, Elias Jaua, has been the stumbling block to improving the benefits of CVG workers.

One of the issues that most concerned about Medina is the absence of a dignified retirement plan to employees who have worked for over 20 years in the corporation.

And 48 workers were settled without including management for the legalization of a retirement plan.

For Medina CVG's decision is arbitrary because there has been any kind of dialogue to solve personal problems.

Many are afraid to leave the corporation without concrete a retirement plan that is responsive and ensure social security of employees.

Other benefits of the collective agreement, such as endowments, also is a debt in the state.

Leaders tried

The trial follows them leaders Ronald Gonzalez, secretary general of SutraCVG; Carlos Quijada, financial secretary and workers SutraCVG Adonis Rangel Centeno, Loran Azocar and Darwin Elvis Lopez, was postponed for 29 September.

The workers are accused of conspiracy and obstruction of the right to work in the protest held on October 6, 2009 when they claimed the former minister of Mibam, Rodolfo Sanz, the delivery of provisions and safety equipment