Venezuelan union leaders stripped of their benefits ahead of massive strike
Public syndicalists claim that they have been stripped of contractual benefits
By: Globovisión | Thursday, 03/07/2019 04:21 PM
translated from Spanish
07-03-19.-This Thursday, in the program Vladimir at 1, broadcast by Globovisión, the trade unionists of the public sector, Pablo Zambrano, leader for the health sector, and José Patines, who represents the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, coincide in the need to go to a strike "so that the working class will have the benefits of before".
José Patines, assured that "nobody from the Government has wanted to attend us after having lost the collective contract". The trade unionist says he does not understand "how after having taken everything away from us, they want us to sit down and discuss the collective contract."
While Pablo Zambrano adds that this is a reaction to the fact that the workers are looking for a change, because the economic and social clauses were eliminated, and the so-called "hunger tables" were applied to them. "So now, the prisoner of the country's crisis falls on the working class," he added.
Patines continued saying that "unfortunately what we see here, is that Nicolás (Maduro), they are dictating to him." We were on Tuesday with (Juan) Guaidó at the College of Engineers, arguing, not to call a strike, because the Foreign Ministry is working with the nails, because there is no water, there is no paper, there is no toner ".
Likewise, José Patines denounced that they do not have any support, "we have passed letters to the Ministry of Labor, we have gone to the Vice Presidency, nobody has wanted to attend us since we were stripped of the collective contract."
"We can not sit down with people who took away what we had for years, in November we protested in front of the Vice Presidency, and that's why they fired more than 150 workers in January because of the intimidation they have for the workers." said Patines.
For his part, Zambrano insisted that "the government has been lacking in respect for the working class and workers." Remember that a few years ago the now president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, was "rescued from a cell,
Skates reported that from the union are preparing to give important announcements this Friday, March 8.
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