The workers, community and cooperatives of the state one ask for to the holder of Basic Industries and Mining, Rodolfo Sanz, that moves to the south of the state Bolivar.

Carnation A. Rangel Jiménez
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“ Queremos generally the destitution of all the bad management, we do not have real to pay to nobody ”, allege the protestants

The protestants long for the visit of the holder of the Mibam to whom they try to inform all the reality into the company of gold, to the south of the state Bolivar.

In spite of the conflict, minister Sanz has not approached the protest, on the contrary he said Friday to mass media that the paralyzation in CVG Minerven had been surpassed.

But he is not thus, the employees follow the doors of Inner door I. The demonstrators assure to be “revolutionary” but nonobliging with “bad” the administration that heads Luis Herrera, president of the state one. To Herrera they make person in charge take the processor to it of gold to not at all profitable levels, for the workers and the community.

The exposition of the strikers is transformed in a “popular feeling”, mainly in the Pebble where the community has strong nexus with the plant, for being the main support of the economy of the south of the state Bolivar.

This Sunday the president of the company, Luis Herrera, published an official notice in main printed mass media where “the board of directors generally summons with emergency character the workers, to get up itself to the labor activities, in its corresponding schedule, activities these, interrupted by illegal and untimely unemployment, supported by the union organizations Simpro and Sinmioro”.

Still on of fight
“We generally want the destitution of all the bad management, we do not have real to pay to nobody”, indicated Carlos Rodriguez, representing maximum of the Union of Professionals and Employees of the Mining of Gold of the state Bolivar (Simpro), telephone route.

To the protestants it maintains them overwhelmed that being the commercialization of gold, one of the most profitable activities of the country, the conditions of the workers are deplorable in the matter of labor hygiene and security, liabilities and answer to the social demands.

“The presence of minister Sanz could solve many things here, that saw with their own eyes, that a commitment act existed because this is a socialist company and must respond to the community”.

Part of the reclamations is including in a request sheet to which the administration has not made him case, according to Rodriguez. In addition the union leader assures that CVG Minerven makes contingency not covered by law to the orders extended-service and until the own Inpsasel.

Rodriguez indicated that they wish an action plan to remove to the company from where she is, because she worries to the financial situation about Minerven and the slow death to him of his productive capacity.

He indicated that already they had meetings with the deputy Rafael Rivers of the National Assembly, that will transact a right to them of word in the chamber.

“To the authorities one forgets to them that we belong to the CVG, the same geographic distance does not favor to us. The workers we are waiting for minister Sanz”.

Rodriguez denounced that the state suppliers do not want to sell to him to Minerven, by the invoices that they have without receiving. The numbers in red have affected the oil purchase and explosives that provide companies like Deltaven - filial of Pdvsa- and Cavim - Anonymous Company of War industries, respectively.

Kidnapping of resources
Telephone route worker Orangel Salazar, protestant and with 15 years of experience in Minerven, rejected that him tilde of “guarimbero” then for him the unique destabilizing acts are the rents of small planes of the president, the kidnapping of 2% of the resources that are not contributed to the communities and the negligence in the operative administration of the plant.

Salazar told that in this year of management the community woke up because it found out that the indirect cooperatives, truck drivers and workers 2% of the invoices for a bottom discount to them that supposedly goes to the communities.

Of that “pote” has Versus. 10 million that the inhabitants of the south of the state Bolivar, because they protest that the investment of the company in the community is not efficient.

“How it is possible that a so rich company has so poor workers, that we do not understand it”, added. “Our fight is not exactly because to this and that one pay to us, more than everything it is to give an alert because our company is going away by a precipice”.

Repeated history

Pedro Arzola, one of the truck drivers who serve to Minerven, is very. Every month they must protest so that the mining company cancels the invoices, pays and wages. They have carried out eight unemployments, reason why they request respect and seriousness.

“That is lacking of seriousness, is worth. In the measurement of which they are serious with us, we will have more respect to them”. It told that the 30 of December prohibited the entrance them when they wanted to demand the payments, because according to the worker they want “them to have divided, to say that this is politician, but that is not thus”.

“What happens it is that the authoritarianism and pride do not let them see. We do not want to measure force with anybody, want that he is listened to us and in that we needed to mass media”.

To the south of the state Bolivar the workers do not fear that they put prisoners or they initiate investigations to them in courts, fear that under the political confrontations sicarios are contracted to annihilate them.