The secretary of the Union of Workers of Ferrominera Orinoco, Rubén González, stressed that the only thing that the workers demand is compliance with article 91 of the Constitution: decent wages to be able to maintain their homes
Workers that make up the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana (CVG) protested in the Bauxilum roundhouse, after the president of the Bolivarian Socialist Central of Workers, Pedro Perales, informed that Nicolás Maduro would visit Guayana.
With flags and banners, the workers expressed their discontent due to the “extermination” to which the population is being subjected. According to Fedecámaras Bolívar, the minimum wage is not enough compared to a basic basket set at 519 dollars.
A note posted by Caroní Mail points out that the critical situation is compounded by the CVG’s failure to comply with what is contemplated in the Organic Law of Labor, Workers and Workers, which establishes the standards for setting wages, the mandatory payment of vacations and social benefits and the progressivity of labor rights.
For his part, the secretary of the Union of Workers of Ferrominera Orinoco (Sintraferrominera), Rubén González, vociferated that the only thing that the workers demand is compliance with article 91 of the Constitution: decent wages to be able to maintain their homes.
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«Here we are colleagues from different companies to raise our voices for truth and justice. For all the benefits of the workers that are contemplated in their collective contracts. We do not ask for gifts, we do not ask that they give us, what we ask is that what is established by law be complied with.
In this sense, during the first months of 2023, protests by CVG workers and the education sector have intensified in Guyana, both unions demand indexation of wages to the dollar and compliance with the payment of benefits.
«Teachers accompany the workers of basic companies. University students and teachers live the same situation. We do not want any more media show by Maduro, who hides in Venalum and Sidor so as not to face the people. The workers ask that the law be complied with in articles 89 and 91. We do not want them to continue starving us. We want dignity,” said the president of the Association of Teachers of the National Experimental University of Guayana, Raúl Brito.
“Maduro go now” was one of the repetitive cheers of the call, the protesters alleged that the Executive has nothing to do in Guyana as long as it does not respond to the labor crisis.
“Maduro, what do you offer Guyana? If you keep those who have destroyed them in the basic companies. You keep someone who signed 2792 in the Governor’s Office. You keep Santaella and change her ministry. Come to Guayana to take Néstor Astudillo, Perales, Ángel Marcano. Take them away,” said Ramón Bejarano, coordinator of citizen associations and member of the Unidad en la Coincidencia labor movement.
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