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Analysis: Labor and Workers' Control

Refounding Venezuelan Labor: One Union at a Time

By Jonah Gindin – Venezuelanalysis.com, Oct 28th 2004

Venezuelan workers are currently in the midst of a period of rapid changes, affecting the working environment from union to community, from factory to the state. In part I of this series we examine the phenomena of union referenda that seek to democratize historically authoritarian—and often corrupt—local unions.

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Re-Organizing Venezuelan Labor

By Jonah Gindin – Venezuelanalysis.com, Oct 18th 2004

The image of Chávez vs Labor, repeatedly thrown at the unsuspecting casual observer by the mainstream media, is precisely intended to mislead. The unpleasant truth is that the CTV has not adequately represented Venezuelan workers since the 1970s, if not before.

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Workers Struggle to Take Over a Paper Mill in Venezuela

By Jorge Martin, Oct 15th 2004

On September 7, 2004, the owners of Venepal, a paper mill in Morón, Carabobo, in Venezuela, decided to cease their operations and not pay their 400 workers their wages. The workers are now demanding that the government nationalizes the company and puts it under workers’ control and management.

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A New Chapter in Venezuela?

By Bill Fletcher Jr. - TransAfrica Forum, Oct 7th 2004

The August 15, 2004 recall election in Venezuela may have introduced a new chapter in Venezuelan political history. A January 2004 TransAfrica Forum-sponsored delegation to Venezuela was able to observe elements of what has been underway in Venezuela.

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Report on Venezuela's Trade Union Situation

By Daina Green and Barry Lipton, May 26th 2004

Interviews with the leadership of the CTV and the new labour central UNT indicate that the historically-strong CTV, profoundly opposed to the Chávez government, is in trouble, and that the newly-formed union central UNT, which supports government policies, is gaining momentum.

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Venezuelan Workers Struggle against Neo-Liberalism in Latin America’s Largest Steel Plant

By Jonah Gindin – Venezuelanalysis.com, May 7th 2004

Sidor workers rally at Portón 3

As the conflict at Siderúrgica del Orinoco (Sidor) enters its third week and millions of dollars in losses for the plant, the strike has come to represent the current contradictions within the government in its relationship with labor.

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Brazil and Venezuela: Differing Responses to the Washington Consensus

By Stanley Gacek - New Labor Forum, Apr 6th 2004

Gacek defends the AFL-CIO's role in Venezuela in supporting the union federation CTV. Steve Ellner, professor of Venezuelan labor history, responds to Gacek's article.

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Fear and Voting in Latin America: A Report from El Salvador and Venezuela

By Derrick O'Keefe - SevenOaksMag.com, Mar 31st 2004

An Interview with Henry Nava, national director of UNT, the new union federation of Venezuela. Nava talks about the recent elections in El Salvador, which he observed, and the possible presidential recall referendum in Venezuela.

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AFL-CIO in Venezuela: Déjà Vu All Over Again

By Kim Scipes - Labor Notes, Mar 25th 2004

The AFL-CIO is once again on the scene, this time in Venezuela, just as it was in Chile in 1973. Once again, its operations in that country are being funded by the U.S. government.

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The Question Remains: What Is the AFL-CIO doing in Venezuela?

By Alberto Ruiz - ZNet, Mar 9th 2004

The AFL-CIO's continued support for the CTV is disturbing, especially given the benefit of hindsight the AFL-CIO has from the events of April of 2002 when the Venezuelan union federation CTV participated in the coup against President Chavez.

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Report on Venezuelan Labour: the Process Continues

By Michael A. Lebowitz, Sep 12th 2003

The 1st National Congress of the National Union of Workers (UNT) of Venezuela called for an autonomous, democratic, solidaristic and internationalist, classist, independent, and unitary worker's movement.

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