Death of labor rights in Venezuela. No Constitutionally protected collective bargaining

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"If I studied, I have the right to earn an ideal salary"
In addition to flattening the salary tables and eliminating benefits, the government ordered to suspend until further notice any negotiation of the collective agreements of the public sector, denounced union sources



By ANA DÍAZ | ANADÍ[e-mail] | CARLOS SEIJAS MENESES | [e-mail]
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 01:15 AM

The workers of the public sector expressed their annoyance and indignation for the arbitrary and unilateral measure of the government of Nicolás Maduro to flatten the salary tables and eliminate bonuses and benefits of collective agreements, and the minutes-agreement of all state agencies.


Workers, employees, professionals, retirees and pensioners went to the call of the non-official union movement to participate in the national protest, in order to reject the new salary tabulator that lowered and excluded bonuses and socioeconomic benefits, which puts collective bargaining at risk .

At the entrance of hospitals and public and private schools, workers carried out banners against the government's socioeconomic policy. Others expressed their displeasure in front of state organisms and companies to later march to specific points like the Confederation of Workers of Venezuela in Caracas.

In the concentration of Cantv, Libertador Avenue, Juan Véliz, manager of the telephone union, said that as the rest of the public sector they paid the first two weeks of the minimum wage (1,800 sovereign bolivars per month from September 1) with rebates or elimination of premiums and compensations.

"That is a violation of the Constitution, which enshrines the progressivity and inviolability of labor rights, in addition to endangering collective bargaining," Véliz added.

Freddy Cañas, of the National Trade Union of Health Workers, said that according to the convention of the sector they should charge an integral income of between 6,600 and 12,000 sovereign bolivars, but this month they will cancel only 2,070 bolivars.

Reinaldo Díaz, director of the Electrical Workers Union of Greater Caracas, informed that the director of the Ministry of Labor, Fabiola Zambrano, notified them of the Executive's order to suspend until further notice the negotiations of all collective contracts of the public sector.

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http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/economia/estudie-tengo-derecho-ganar-sueldo-ideal_252443

The problem? The "worker president", like El Líder Galactico before him, doesn't give the least shit about the people. He cares about the Revolution. People come and go. Live and die. The Revolution must endure.

The Constitution? Pfft! Hasn't been a consideration since Chavismo lost in a landslide in 2015!