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40% of companies with labor conflicts were estatizado

Now the exigency of some unions is not only to obtain improvements for the workers, but the company is estatizada (G.Bandres/Archivo)

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THE UNIVERSAL ONE

Forty percent of the companies that has faced the more sonorous labor conflicts of the last months at the moment is in the hands of the State.

The protests of the workers with greater impact have affected 27 establishments, the majority of transnational them, and are including the blockade to the facilities of the same or requests of estatización on the part of some representatives of the labor mass.

From the past year 11 industries of that total happened at the hands of the State, or through the route of the expropriation, intervention or buys of the same.

In four cases the Government of expropriating the industries, between which are Sidor, Lafarge, Holcim and Cemex; in one he decided to buy it, as he happened more to Milky The $andes and in another one - Andean Cement weighed the intervention of the same on the part of a governmental meeting and, although already was approved the expropriation decree, still lacks to solve the subject of the ownership of the actions, case dissolved in the Supreme Court of Justice.

On the other route Black Hill, Sincor and Petrozuata passed the old agreements operative, that operated in Petroliferous Faja of the Orinoco, because the strong labor protests and a decision on the strategic nature of those companies on the part of the Executive were the excuse so that the State became the majority shareholder. In order to obtain the advantage, the national Executive forced the old owners to remain with the smaller part of the package of action.

Also, forts labor protests finished aggravating the financial problems that the mining transnational company Hecla faced, which caused their sale to the Rusoro Russian, who had to agree with the Government to create a mixed company that was in charge to operate the mines and thus to calm the spirits of its workers, who cried out by the nationalization of those mining spaces.

On the other hand, the first warning of president Hugo Chavez on the possibility of estatizar the telephone Cantv went like answer to the refusal of the company to settle its debts with near 8,000 retired ones.

A year after the first warning, and after indi- to car that the telecommunications were strategic for Venezuela, Chávez estatizó Cantv.

The relation between the labor protests and the nationalizations is not accidental. Already in April when the estatización of Sidor announced, the vice-president of the Republic, Ramon Carrizález, announced the will of the Government to extend the estatizadora wave to all those companies that acted of bad faith towards their workers, as it indicated that it happened in the case of the iron and steel.

According to the vision of the second on board the Government, the workers of the steel mill practically were put under a semislavery and added that they had identified that situation in other establishments of the private sector.

From January of the past year to date quite noisy labor manifestations in 18 companies have taken shape that have caused a hard effect in several of the cases.

In the food sector conflicts in Companies have appeared Polar, Cocaine Tail Femsa, Snacks Latin America Venezuela; whereas in the sector of mining and basic industries the algid points have appeared in Vhicoa, Crystallex, the mining promoter Guayana, Coals of the Guasare and Orinoco Iron.

By the sector hydrocarbons, the gasoline carriers and those of the stations on watch also have raised their voices to demand, not only labor vindications, but also the estatización of the business.

However, the protests of the workers of the automotive industry have acquired more protagonism in the last months. It is a sector that is affected in a quite ample phantom that the rest of the productive sector, in fact, the assemblers Toyota, MMC Automotive, Ford Motor, and more recently General Motors, been have affected by manifestations of workers who are including the blockade to the facilities of those companies.

Not only the little continuity in the flow of has affected them to dollars, but also that the closing of the accesses of the General Motors assembler, for example, on the part of the workers and employees it has hit in the productive capacity of the same.

The subject of the labor manifestations in the companies of the deprived sector, no longer is of small account.

Recently the executive president of Conindustria, Ismael Perez Vigil, alerted that besides the regulations to the market and the delay in the delivery of dollars to official price, the labor confliction in the production centers affects the performance of the productive apparatus.

stejero@eluniversal.com