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February 27, 2008 Thousands of workers at Venezuela's largest steel plant, the Argentine-controlled Ternium Sidor, activated staggered strikes today as part of an ongoing dispute for a collective contract, which has dragged on for more than a year.

February 26, 2022 In the latest episode of The Venezuelanalysis Podcast, we go over historical land struggles and the present reality in rural Venezuela

May 10, 2013 ... came into effect this week, guaranteeing shorter working hours, longer maternity leave and pensions for all ... the world”, the Lottt reduces the working week from 44 hours to 40, and requires that employers provide two ... labour minister Maria Iglesias stated that the new working hours are part of the process towards a “just distribution ...

November 7, 2008 ... Labor Law, which would have reduced the working day to 6 hours, a proposal made by legislators Luis Tascon, Wilmer ... to the Venezuelan workers to have a labor day reduced to 6 hours be fulfilled here, something which was promised in the ... union sectors about the reduction of the working day to 6 hours through the Labor Law. He said that in the context of ...

October 23, 2008 ... and protests that they had maintained for more than 90 hours, after the Venezuelan vice president Ramon Carrizalez ...

May 1, 2012 ... new labour law will see the working week reduced to 40 hours and maternity leave increased to 6.5 months. The law ...

April 19, 2014 In the early hours of last Wednesday morning, the heads of the fishing industry workers' unions of Sucre state announced their request to be incorporated into the mesas económicas (economic tables), among other [sectors].

May 9, 2012 ... (article 44). After defining outsourced labour in article 47 as “fraud committed by employers in order to distort, ... should be paid at at least 30% extra. “Extraordinary” hours will be paid at a rate of at least 50% extra. A worker ... one hour per day, and workers can’t work more than 5 hours continuously. During such rest times, they have the ...

October 30, 2014 ... have been granted bail, 19 will face trial this week and 47 have been freed, said Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz ...

February 2, 2012 ... – The reduction of the working day to a maximum of 7 hours, eliminating subcontracted work and increasing ...

July 26, 2010 ... constantly ringing phone, Pedro spoke passionately for two hours about the centrality of organized workers in the ... in our company against the abuses of excessive working hours. As a consequence of this, I was fired. From that point ...

March 21, 2011 ... late last year, the government ordered the occupation of 47 mostly fallow estates in the region as part of its relief ...

April 29, 2011 ... BsF [63 million USD] to double (from 200 to 400 BsF) [47 to 93 USD] the monthly scholarship amount received by some ...

April 8, 2011 ... citing Central Bank figures inflation figures (60.47% over the last two years) to demonstrate the ongoing ...

November 5, 2008 ... was that the minister had been meeting into the late hours of the night with the presidents of Sidor to fine-tune ... in mid-October the contract workers went on strike for 90 hours and blocked traffic on the main road because Sanz had ...