Venezuela: El Libertario warns of possible sentence to the 14 SIDOR workers (tags)
* After taking part in a demonstration for lack of job security in 2006, 14 workers of contractor “Transportes Camila de SIDOR” could be sentenced to 5 to 10 years in jail.
Venezuela: El Libertario alerta sobre posible condena a los 14 de Sidor (tags)
* Tras participar en una protesta por falta de condiciones de seguridad laboral en el año 2006, un grupo de 14 trabajadores de la contratista Transportes Camila de Sidor pueden ser condenados este 29 de abril a penas de entre 5 y 10 de prisión.
Chavez re-nationalises SIDOR – historic victory for the workers (tags)
At 1.22am Venezuelan time on Wednesday, April 9th, Venezuelan vice-president Ramon Carrizalez announced the decision of president Chávez to renationalise the giant steel plant SIDOR located in the southern state of Bolivar. The decision was taken as the Argentinean-Italian multinational group Techint (the majority shareholder of SIDOR) refused to make concessions to the workers in the collective bargaining agreement. The workers of SIDOR have been struggling for more than 15 months fighting for improvements in wages, conditions and health and safety in the collective bargaining agreement. The main points of contention were: 1) wage increase, where the company offered very little and wanted to spread any increase over a 30-month period; 2) the question of subcontracting, where the workers were demanding that all subcontracted workers (9,000 out of a total workforce of 15,000) should be incorporated into the main workforce, and 3) that there should be a substantial increase in the pensions of retired workers who were receiving less than the minimum wage.
Represión a los trabajadores de Sidor en Venezuela (tags)
Ante esta represión los trabajadores gritaban indignados "¡¿Dónde está el Socialismo del Gobierno?!, acaso ¿Socialismo es Represión?, ¿Acaso esta es la La Guardia Nacional Revolucionaria?"