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Partially paralyzed Ferrocasa supply company: Hannibal Eduardo Sandoval
11/11/10

The Callao-then of talks exhausted and tired of waiting, the labour mass corresponding to the employees decided to join the workers yesterday "fallen arms" as a scheduled action, which remains partially paralyzed the gold of the Venezuelan State company, alleging that the promise of the second instalment of the bonus was them means by 10 thousand Bs. planned for last October, the payment of utilities (bonuses) offered for last Friday, salary increase, lack of materials, supplies, working conditions and lack of management - according to them - will lead to gold to close the year with a production of about 2 thousand kilos of gold, when last year was 4 billion reducing 200 kilos of precious metal.
At a meeting which took place in the morning yesterday, in the dining room the Colombia, mine workers daily payroll, SHIFT 7: 00 am to 3: 00 pm decided to continue with scheduled by the mass labour and trade union leaders as "fallen arms" actions pending payments due, the improvement of working conditions of health and safety and the reactivation of various areas that are not operational, the lack of material or inputs such as balls and cyanide, among others.

MINE TOTALLY PARALYZED COLOMBIA

During a tour of the mine Colombia you saw the cessation of activities, as well as a good amount of machinery and trucks stranded, requested the opinion both workers and the management of the enterprise, making only interview with labor leaders since it was argued that the present managers were not authorized to declare the media.

OFFICE TAKEN BY THE GNB

In the part of the administrative building was a platoon of the National Guard guarding the entrance, something which was rejected by the mass labour, stressing that they could not tolerate when they were not exercising actions of protest, but waiting for outstanding payments that it has granted the militarization of the own employees, offices.

MISSING PAYMENT VOUCHER AND UTILITIES

Labour Ferrocasa, Darwin Evans, director explained that "12 days ago workers are without work as regular waiting for a payment that has been breached by the management of the company, headed by its President, Luis Herrera Mendoza, violentando a deed signed between workers and the company on a bonus incentive of 35 thousand Bs. every worker, which should cancel by the due date for 15 months of collective bargaining, whose first payment by 10 thousand Bs. was made in September, but the second equal amount planned for late October not is has made and the third by Bs. 15 thousand will be for the month of January 2012".

"WE ARE OF ARMS FALLENS"

Evans added that the situation has been deteriorating refusal report payment of utilities announced for the last week.
"Past the 12 days of waiting, today (yesterday) we have decided together with the staff of employees paralyze activities;" "recalled that the President of the company had committed itself to cancel Friday, November 5 utilities to this date still not have been cancelled, and worse anyone informs us when they pay both bonus and the bonuses, so we will keep in our jobs, but without work, until it is fulfilled we agreed", stressed Darwin Evans.

NOT THERE ARE MINIMUM SAFETY CONDITIONS

Extending their statements, mining State Enterprise labour director stressed that workers do not have the minimum safety conditions because manning late them; Furthermore gloves, boots and panties are of poor quality, recalling that when the global crisis occurred, to the gold State favored you because gold prices were very high, not being understood as it has failed to make the investments necessary to increase the production; Amen of the cemetery of machinery and trucks with which the company currently has.

PERMANENT ASSEMBLY WORKERS

Furthermore, Simpro, Edwin Hurtado Union Executive explained that they were in Permanent Assembly, stressing that in the minutes signed with the President of the company agreed to increase wages to 25 Bs. daily to each worker, ticket basket a bonus of 35 thousand Bs. of instalments only complying with increased ticket basket and the first payment of the bonus, lacking the second and third parts, as well as the increase in wages, since a Commission was appointed to go to the Executive Vice-President of the Republic was not even received; It adds the lack of payment of utilities.

THERE IS DANGER OF ACCIDENT IN THE UNDERGROUND MINE

"We must be the appropriations for the years 2007, 2008 and 2009, are not counted with the conditions of safety and hygiene, we particularly in article 53 of the Lopcymat, giving us the right to refuse to work, to interrupt a task or activity, when there is an imminent danger which put at risk our lives and denounce conditions unsafe or unhealthy work, since we are in an underground mine and we have no minimum safety conditions and hygiene, something that has already been denounced before the Inpsasel so do responsible for any accident to the management of the enterprise", stressed Hurtado.

CALLED THE MIBAM MINISTER

Ended their statements trade unionist Simpro stressing Ferrocasa nears close the year with a production of almost 2 thousand pounds of gold, when last year was my 200 4 back into production in 1992, but having a larger budget, personnel and equipment, therefore called on the Mibam Minister, Jose Khan review these numbers and the management of the enterprise.

MARQUEE

THE payment of the bonus is met unofficial so that the President of the company, engineer Luis Herrera Mendoza, was in Puerto Ordaz managing ten thousand bolivars bonus payment. The maximum Ferrocasa managers would have ensured this week to proceed to the cancellation of the second part of the bonus to each worker and that the third and last would be for the month of January 2012, as had been agreed with the mass labour and trade union representation.

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