This Monday May 1st workers Venezuelans mobilize to defend the labor demands established in the Organic Law of Labor, Workers and Workers (LOTTT) and in support of the President of the Republic, Nicolás Ripe.
The statement was made this Monday by the president of the Bolivarian Union of Workers of the Caracas Metro (Sitrameca), Edison Alvarado, who in a television program highlighted that with the implementation of the LOTTT, the rights of the working class of the country.
“Today we march to continue defending the social benefits of workers that only in the Bolivarian Revolution have been guaranteed since 2012, when our Commander Chávez managed to standardize that Organic Law, where more than 20 thousand proposals were born before being promulgated at the national level. ”, he added.
Alvarado recalled that Commander Hugo Chávez, despite his illness, “came to serve the workers and with this law, we managed to rescue the social benefits that were stolen by the government of the Fourth Republic.”
Proposal: self-management mechanism
On the other hand, Alvarado commented that the working class of the Caracas Metro is promoting a proposal that aims to implement a mechanism of sustainability and self-management with respect to the resources provided by the State, which are granted for maintenance, for salary of workers, for food, health, among others.
“We ourselves are looking for support mechanisms,” said Edison Alvarado.
coercive measures
After the sanctions and attacks by the government of the United States and allied countries, the Venezuelan working class has sought new mechanisms that allow them to maintain their living conditions.
“It affected our health, food, the salary that they pulverized us, they stole our gold, the resources in international banks, that model is the one that we are fighting as a working class together with President Nicolás Maduro,” he stressed.
“Despite the economic blockade imposed by imperialism, the working class has been aware and patient, they have not stopped providing their services for the nation,” he added.
Labor Day
Since 1936, Worker’s Day has been commemorated in Venezuela, but it was in 1945 when then-President Isaías Medina Angarita decreed May 1 as the date to honor the fight for labor rights.
It should be remembered that International Worker’s Day dates back to May 1, 1886, when more than 350,000 workers in the city of Chicago, in the United States, paralyzed production by taking to the streets to demand better working conditions.
