Government and mining companies seek temporary employment
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May 06, 2008 04:04PM
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Government and mining companies seek temporary employment
May 06, 2008
Next Monday the government and representatives of mining organizations will meet to develop a plan preinvestment and temporary employment.
This was one of the first actions at the request of miners who arrived this morning at Carondelet Palace to demand work.
Hundreds of demonstrators miners, with posters in hand and accompanied by their families came to talk with the first agent and to express their rejection of the mandate miner.
The National Constituent Assembly adopted last April 18 the mandate for which 06 were ordered to revert to the State 80% of the mining concessions.
Correa went on the presidential balcony and announce after analyzing a plan for temporary employment, said the reversion of the mining concessions were given because many companies did not comply with the law. "There are 6 or 8 companies that it complied with everything," he said.
The miners arrived in the capital asking the President to generate jobs because they have become unemployed due to foreign mining companies stopped their activities by the mandate.
The buses arrived from eastern Ecuador, and the provinces of El Oro, Loja, Zamora Chinchipe and Bolivar. Many traveled with their families and were concentrated in the outskirts of El Arbolito park.
From there began the march. Toured the avenue Ten of August toward the center of town until reaching the low Carondelet Palace in Independence Square, where the presence of Prime waited Representative from the presidential balcony, reported Citynoticias (89.3 FM in Guayaquil).
The leader of the miners of Zamora Chinchipe, Gladys Ochoa, indicated that have come to Quito to "ask and demand the right to work" because he believes the mandate miners have been hundreds of families without jobs.
Ochoa also was concerned because, in his opinion, the mandate could lead to the departure of Ecuadorians illegally.
Meeting reserved
Representatives of the mining sector so reserved met with the president of the Republic, Rafael Correa, the minister of Policy Coordinator, Ricardo Patino, and the undersecretary of Mines and Petroleum, Jose Serrano. That appointment came the first resolution to create a plan for temporary employment.