Union leaders and workers of the industrial conglomerate of the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana (CVG) This Wednesday they closed the highway that connects Ciudad Guayana with Ciudad Bolívar, at the height of the Alcasa elevated, in the state of Bolívar, to demand improvements in salary tables, the adjusted payment of utilities and the holding of free elections in the country.
During the concentration on the highway, the union spokesmen confirmed that they will continue with the peaceful protest actions and directly questioned the president in charge, Delcy Rodríguez, as well as the president of the United States, donald trumpregarding the socioeconomic conditions that the workforce in southern Venezuela is going through.
The protest in the industrial zone of Bolívar state joins the demands of the educational sector and the national public administration for the restitution of collective contracts and the readjustment of income within the framework of conversations on labor consensus.
“Here the workers are not well, they are not enjoying themselves, dancing or happy. We are demanding what really corresponds to us in accordance with what is contemplated in the collective agreement,” said union spokesmen at the blockade point.
The workers and retirees of CVG affiliate companies expressly demand the cancellation of a profit bonus equivalent to $1,200 to alleviate the loss of purchasing power.
The closure of the strategic road that connects the main cities of the Bolívar state marks a hardening in the positions of the labor movement of the basic companies aluminum, iron and steel.
The organizing committees will hold permanent assemblies at the plants of the holding company. CVG during the next few hours to define the date and route of the general mobilization “El Guayanazo”.
