Government and AES workers close agreements and lift blockages in Boyacá

The Ministries of Labor, Mines, Interior, the Unit for Disaster Risk Management, the Boyacá Governorate and Local Authorities managed to establish agreements with which the protest they advanced in Santa María and surrounding municipalities, social and community organizations were achieved.

In a statement of requests that submitted to the consideration of the national, departmental and local authorities, the inhabitants and workers of the area, require a solution to problems generated by the winter wave and the effects caused by the Chivor hydroelectric power plant and AES Colombia company.

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In the agreement that was signed this Wednesday, the Montrabajo carried out inspection actions to the companies, the strengthening of the associativity of the workers and dialogue for the search for agreements.

He Labor Minister Antonio Sanguinowho was on the site, in the company of Governor of Boyacá, Carlos Amayaand of Representative, Jaime Raúl Salamancasaid: “Not only do I come by delegation from the President of the Republic, Gustavo Petro, from whom I bring a very special greeting and hug, I am for a personal commitment and affection for this land, with the workers, peasants and the Boyacense citizenship”

“What has been achieved is an agreement between communities, workers, representatives of the company AES Colombia and national, departmental and local authorities, where the portfolio that Lider will exercise control with the norms and rights of workers”Sanguino noted.

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“Together with the Territorial Directorate, visits will be made every month to verify compliance with the agreements and labor standards derived from the recent labor reform, Law 2466 approved in the Congress of the Republic on June 26“, accurate.

Matters such as local labor, respect for social protest and workers, outsourcing, labor precariousness, guaranteeing fair wages and indefinite term contracts, as well as protecting the quality of employment.

“For us these electrical and hydroelectric projects are very important, but there must be energy to the country, based on the decent and decent work of workers”Sanguino said.

It included within the issues to be reviewed and that is in the sheet of requests for occupational safety and health, “This type of project incorporates special risk levels, so the inspection that we are going to do will review the health and safety conditions at work, in such a way that the company guarantees the rules and conditions that the regulations require for workers and their communities”He said.

The minister also said that he will advance with the labor inspectors and from the Fundamental Rights Directoratea pedagogical day of labor reform, with workers, managers of companies and citizens, “la cual fue pensada en clave de derechos de los trabajadores. It is the most important of this century, which recovers rights that everyone must know”

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He Director of Fundamental Rights, Yomar Benítezwho accompanied this space for dialogue, said: “From the Montrabajo, the social protest was supported and the trade union organizations. Emphasis is placed on the generation of new jobs in the sector with the conditions that the new labor reform sends.”

He added: “This accompaniment goes hand in hand with generating the conditions for social dialogue to be respected, that there is no union discrimination and decent and decent work is encouraged”

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