Rangel emphasized that the workers who have pending vacations and the administrative staff at the El Palito refinery will be temporarily absent.
The deputy of the National Assembly elected in December 2020 and president of the Bolivarian Central of Socialist Workers (CBST), Wills Rangel, denied again this Tuesday, June 14, that 800 workers at the El Palito refinery in Carabobo state have been fired. since it indicated that major maintenance work was done on the structure.
Rangel, interviewed in VTVcriticized the information denouncing the massive layoffs in El Palito and considers that those who issue it are “infiltrators who are making divisions” in the oil workers’ union and asserted that there is “trust” in the authorities because they provide stability.
In that sense, he indicated that there was a “normal operational accident” that led to lowering the load to fix it and put it back into operation. He said that there are plans for major maintenance plans and that there is currently a bidding process to determine which company will come on a temporary basis to carry it out, stressing that they are not coming to replace workers but rather to generate “temporary jobs.”
He stressed that those administrative staff, who have pending vacations and who are not a fundamental part of the operations “will be fulfilling their vacations,” while mentioning that the laws protect workers so that, in any circumstance, they can be at home without their wage rights are taken away.
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On May 30, the National Working Class Struggle Front (FNLCT), denounced that at least 800 employees of the El Palito Refinery could be removed from their positions to give their places to workers from private contractors.
“A plan is underway to disincorporate 800 workers (leaving them at home) and replace them with outsourced employment through subcontracting companies (outsourcing),” they reported from the FNLCT.
Subsequently, Deputy Williams Golindano denied that these workers are fired and that the stop at El Palito was made in order to maintain the facilities that guarantee their operation and that it would be an Iranian company that would carry it out.
Later, the general secretary of the Unitary Federation of Petroleum Workers of Venezuela (Futpv), José Bodas, considered as a “labour massacre” the dismissal of 800 workers.
Bodas, according to the newspaper El Tiempo in Anzoátegui state, said that these types of actions “are not new” and that Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) has been exercising this practice in a “low profile”; although he warned that this time it has been a measure of “great magnitude” because 50% of the refinery workers were dismissed.
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