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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.

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 ...

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 ...

April 30, 2008 As May Day approaches once again, Federico Fuentes fromwww.greenleft.org.au interviews Stalin Pérez Borges (SPB), national coordinator of the National Union of Workers (UNT) and member of the editorial board of the newspaper Marea Socialista and Marcos Garcia (MG), national coordinator of the public sector federation, FENTRASEP and member also of Marea Socialista.

February 14, 2008 ... the company's Venezuela operations were shut down for 48 hours for tax evasion in March 2007. The disciplinary measure ...

April 15, 2008 ... Workers at another union in the region took less than 24 hours to appear on television after the announcement and urge ...

April 29, 2008 ... only slightly above 20% of the formal work force, while 47% of workers are in the so-called informal sector, ...

March 16, 2008 Unionists have rejected the actions of 120 functionaries of the National Guard and 60 police who attacked and broke up a protest of workers from the Argentine -controlled Ternium Sidor steel plant, who were blocking the principle avenue of Cuidad Guayana, early Friday.

April 29, 2008 If a “just” price is not agreed upon this Tuesday for the nationalization of the Sidor steel plant, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will sign a presidential decree expropriating the company, Chávez declared on his weekly Sunday talk show Aló Presidente.

May 2, 2008 ... argued for the reduction of the work day from 8 to 6 hours, initially proposed in President Chavez’s ...

May 14, 2008 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed a collective contract with workers at the Sidor steel plant yesterday, formalizing an agreement reached between workers and the government last week. Also, Chavez signed the law-decree for the nationalization of Sidor.

August 25, 2008 ... before the authorities and were held for almost six hours in a maximum security prison. They were informed they ...

November 3, 2008 ... number of permanent workers — went on strike for 90 hours on October 17, as tensions rose to the point of ...

July 1, 2008 ... situation — the workers wanted them to go. After some hours [the administration] left … with so many workers ...