This Wednesday night, the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, held a meeting at the Miraflores Palace, with a delegation from the International Labor Organization (ILO), as part of the Social Dialogue Forum, installed in Caracas from April 25 until this Thursday, April 28.
“Excellent meeting with the delegation of the International Labor Organization that is in our country, within the framework of the ‘Social Dialogue Forum,'” the Head of State wrote on his Twitter account.
He also stressed: “Our fight will always be in favor of the Venezuelan Working Class, of which I am proud to belong,” he added.
During the meeting were present: the executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez; Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia; and the Labor Minister, José Ramón Rivero.
The ILO was represented by: Italo Cardona, who is director of the ILO Office for the Andean countries based in Lima, Peru; Amanda Villatoro, coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Office for Workers’ Activities (Actrav) based in Geneva, Switzerland; and Roberto Villamil, who works as Senior Counselor and Coordinator for Relations and Technical Cooperation with Latin America at the Office for Employers’ Activities (Actemp), in Geneva.
ILO officials participated in the Social Dialogue Forum, in order to find meeting points and coincidences to achieve the demands of the country’s workers.
The Social Dialogue Forum was installed on April 25 and concludes this Thursday, April 28, by Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who emphasized that there is a need for Venezuelans “to meet in diversity, to meet with respect, to meet with tolerance”.
He also said that the holding of this forum responds to the recommendations that have been given to Venezuela in terms of three ILO conventions, such as Convention 26, which deals with the fixing of minimum wages, Convention 87 on Freedom of Association and Convention 144 on Tripartite Consultations.
Venezuela asked the ILO delegation to investigate the consequences and damage caused to the country’s workers by the unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States.
