The joint struggle of Venezuelan labor unions against increasing the retirement age and reducing the purchasing power of working people
"United Trade Union Space" proposes broad action unity against the directive of the Office of the National Budget (ONAPRE) and for labor rights.
The atmosphere of trade unions consisting of various organizations and currents, including the Workers' Union Center (CUTV) and the National Front for the Struggle of the Working Class (FNLCT) this Thursday for a broad, broad, and unified meeting, with a national character, in order to create a plan He called for a united struggle. This news was presented by the Secretary General of the Workers' Union of the Central University of Venezuela (Sinatra UCV), Dianira Romero, during a press conference.
The atmosphere of trade unions positively evaluated the various initiatives of inter-trade and inter-union organizations that are active to confront the abuse and criminal actions of the government and employers and called for the creation of a plan to "defeat the disastrous and anti-labor and anti-people policy that causes hunger". .
The statement of the atmosphere of labor unions is as follows:
The atmosphere of labor unions composed of trade union organizations, fronts, currents and movements of the working class of Venezuela addresses all trade union and union forces to participate in a large meeting with a national character and mobilization against the instructions of the National Budget Office and in general against the labor policy of the government to propose to them A united struggle plan should be presented to allow us, beyond any differences, together to save wages, pensions, social benefits and gains from collective agreements, the government in compliance with the laws and labor rights contained in the Constitution, especially in Article 87. 89, 91, 95, 96, and 97.
Such an approach is the result of the decisions taken at the "National Meeting of Workers in Struggle" that was held in Caracas on July 30/8 August, a meeting in which we agreed on the need to promote the broadest unity of Venezuelan workers and their organizations in defense of violated and threatened rights. This violation of rights is the result of the labor policies implemented by the country's executive branch and the anti-labor and illegal behavior of public and private employers.
The power of mobilizing the union and trade union movement, which operates independently of employers and the government, with the retreat of the government in an effort to divide the vacation pay and recreation bonus of active and retired personnel in the entire education sector, which was the result of an irrational and unilateral agreement agreed by the government bureaucrats and the employers' union. Was shown. However, the salary policy is still applied against the law and destroys the salaries not only in the public administration and companies, but also in the private sector. This situation has worsened since 2018/1397, with Circular 2792 and with the fraudulent application of Article 148 of the LOTTT, and is currently continuing with the instructions of the National Budget Office and other fraudulent measures that impose a work deregulation plan that only poverty, injustice and It will lead to excessive exploitation of our labor force by foreign and national capital. Only with a very broad united movement that brings together all the organizations and groups of the Venezuelan working class in a single force can this whole situation be dealt with triumphantly...
