The mining company PMG presents/displays serious problems now. AES

A resolution of the BCV is the detonating of a situation that threatens the labor stability of thousands of workers.

ANÍBAL EDUARDO SANDOVAL
The Pebble

Through a resolution of the Central bank of Venezuela, the national Government takes the control from 70% of the gold reserves that the mining companies will have to sell of obligatory form the official being, but to regulated dollar, whereas only the other 30% can be exported, which comes to inflict casualties in the diverse mining companies that they have his soothes in the municipalities of the south of the state.

Taking into account this one governmental decision, the members of several unions that make active life in the municipalities Roscio, the Pebble, Sifontes and Gran Savannah, they elevated its voice of protest during the morning of yesterday, and rejected any attempt of taking on the part of the national Executive, that apparently will not throw reverse gear to already arranged through a published official resolution in the Official Newspaper Nº 39,169, of date 30 of April of year 2009.

Douglas Oaks, member of the Untramigua union of the company Promotora Minera Guayana (PMG), when knowing the decision expressed: “it is a measurement that attempts against the labor stability of more than thousand 200 workers and that of one or the other way leaves without work and viable economy the municipalities of the south. We do a call to him to the national Executive so that in the name of the communal advice, union organizations and each person in particular, so that he lapses the resolution at issue, because of having a variant in this measurement company PMG will not have to close its doors immediately anything than to do”, asserted.

The union leader noticed that to sell gold to the preferential dollar he would be to take to the companies to the bankruptcy, “the national Government tries to pay thousands gold to 2 and as much the ounce and we know that at the moment he is sold to price of free dollar, that evidently takes to any company to the bankruptcy and he leaves us without work, we are being emphatic that he is taken care of us in our petition that is an urgent revision and a change in the emanated resolution of the Central bank of Venezuela”, limited Oaks.

Jhon Davis, also member of the union organization, added that “the measurement taken by the national Executive through Central bank is worrisome, where is suffocating to us with this decision and for that reason we asked aid the national Government, to the National Assembly, the Ministry of the Work, the Cleb and the same president Hugo Chavez, so that we look for together one better exit to this problem that is appearing. We have thrown calculations and is impossible to sell gold to that price because the losses are excellent, neither a private company nor the government will be able to sell to that price because they would go to the bankruptcy”, said the worker, while it clarified that they are not guarimberos, as can get they alquien them to label.

It adduced that to take shape the resolution, the commerce also would be affected and many of them would go to the bankruptcy inasmuch as the retailers in their majority are retailers of mining implementos. “We are fulfilling social commitments with the communities and are turning gold into benefits for the neighbors of the different communities from the Pebble, Sifontes, Roscio and Gran Savannah”, needed Davis, who showed that unemployment would reach exorbitant numbers to take shape the emanated resolution of the BCV.

Manuel Montiel, representative of the union that groups to more than 300 workers of the auriferous company MS of the Sifontes municipality, indicated: “the situation that we are living at the moment is difficult, we we are not against the government, which we are is against this resolution and thus they are running the foreign investment. This is a coup d'etat and unemployment could reach near 90%, we hoped that the national Executive knows to rectify this emanated resolution of the Central bank of Venezuela”, adduced.