Crystallex International

The case is in the Inspectoría de Guasipati. The affected ones denounce that there is a confusion because they are being accused to have carried out a paralyzation that generated losses.

According to the union leadership the company wants to remove them because they have maintained a fight of the side of the workers. Photo William Urdaneta

Rudy Chirinos, act secretary and correspondence of the union, explained that the qualifications of dismissal are from the 18 of August in the labor instance and since then they are fighting against the company not to be dismissed of a way that they consider “unjust”.

“We are four those that we are being described, Edwar Lopez, Secretary General, Alan Grouse, secretary of organization, Jose Infant, secretary of work and reclamation, and my person, accuses itself to us to have made a paralyzation, but this was decided by the workers and we did not have to do in that, in addition our paper is the defense of the interests of them, for that we were elect and for that it is the union law”.

Long way
Chirinos remembers that long before which Venrus, located in the Pebble to the south of the state Bolivar, would be called of that form they freed a fight against the transnational Hecla American - who administered the deposit which forced the employees to undress and to make “jumps of frog” to verify that they did not have hidden mineral auriferous in his intimate parts.

This type of violations to the human rights and other supposed irregularities committed by the company gave foot to the Venezuelan State to terminate the concession and to conform from then a mixed company, 50 Russian capital percent and 50 Venezuelan percent. That process was headed by previous minister of Basic Industries and Minería Rodolfo Sanz more ago than two years.

Nevertheless, it indicates the act secretary that the labor situation in this new figure has improved has not been absolutely satisfactory for the mass worker, who continues having part of the problems that suffered in the past because many of the administrative employees of Hecla continue holding the positions that they still had in this new administration.

“The same errors are committed, and we do not understand what happens. We are in favor of the defense of the workers and is the reason of the unions, here there are many people who are matching that nothing has to do with the real interests of the Venezuelan State to put to produce the deposits, to give well-being to the workers and well-being in the communities, is a confusion and want that we pay by things that we have not done”, said the lady.

Labor justice
In view of the situation and the possibility that the directive of Sintracallao is desincorporada, Rudy Chirinos makes a call to the authorities and the Ministry of the Work so that it makes respect the three labor inamovilidades that weigh envelope they, first decreed by the President of the Republic, second because they are in the heat of discussion of the collective contract and third by having union law. (NG)