Workers' rights

A further 1,723 subcontracted workers are to be incorporated onto the state payroll in Venezuela´s nationalised steel plant Sidor, Venezuelan Vice-president Elias Jaua announced on Friday. He further confirmed that two other companies, Grafitos del Orinoco and Sidetur, will be nationalised by the end of the year. 

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Over 200 workers, mostly union representatives and "prevention delegates", attended the Fourth Regional Meeting for Workers' Health on the 16th-17th of September in Anzoategui state.

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Since July this year, workers at the Pronutricos-Proarepa food group factory have been engaged in mobilisation, demanding a state investigation of the company following a series of "irregularities".

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While I was in Venezuela a number of comrades asked me about some manifesto against “Chavez's attacks on trade union rights” and also about the controversy over a letter Noam Chomsky had signed which the bourgeois media had used in their campaign in defence of “human rights” in Venezuela.

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Yesterday over 2000 workers marched to the National Assembly in Caracas in support of increased workers’ control. Handing over a document with over 45,000 signatures, the workers demanded that the legislative body approve the Special Law for Socialist Worker Councils and begin an immediate discussion of a “new and revolutionary” Organic Work Law (LOT).

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The Workers’ Collective of the Radio of the South denounces political persecution and wholesale firings at the station.

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In light of the dismissal of the president of the Radio of the South, the Workers’ Collective of the Radio of the South has, in a meeting, agreed on the following statement.

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Workers from La Petare, Caracas, say they feel respected after being elected by their respective communal councils to work in socialist cell phone company 'La Orinoquia'.

The Orinoquia Electrical Industry was born out of an agreement with China and inaugurated in May 2010. Workers benefit from working close to their houses, flexible working hours and socialist cooperation in the workplace. La Orinoquia is also aimed at stimulating national production and achieving ‘technological sovereignty’.

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Workers at the exercise book factory have organised themselves into thirteen committees, driving development of a new management model since 2005 through the formation of a general management council, where they make decisions concerning the company.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday used his standing legislative authority to enact three new laws designed, he said, “to dignify” the living conditions of Venezuela’s urban residents. Each law sets out to address the issues relating to forced evictions, ‘residential workers’ (concierges), and the management of urban property rights.

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