Friday, March 14, 2008

Sidor strike slogs on; Steel workers start 48-hour stoppage

Caracas Daily Journal (Jeremy Morgan): Hopes that workers at steelmaker Sidor could be persuded to submit their long-running pay dispute to arbitration appear to be dead in the water. At midnight on Thursday, they launched into yet another 48-hour stoppage as reports suggested unions and management might still be far from reaching a settlement.

The company again nudged up its offer to BsF44 a day earlier this week.
  • The steel industry union Suttis, which has been lowering its demand in small steps, stuck to BsF 50 an hour. Officials spoke in terms implying this was their final position.
Labor Minister José Ramón Rivero, who's been backing the idea of arbitration, announced on Wednesday night that a high-level committee was trying to help resolve the dispute.

Rivero proposed that the two sides should get together to organize a ballot of the employees as the basis of reaching a consensus on ending the dispute.
He claimed Sidor was in accord with the plan, but noted it was necessary that Suttis was, too. The union's view wasn't disclosed.
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  1. UnknownMarch 14, 2008 at 12:52 PM

    So, these bolivarian bureaucrats feel they can continue to stick their noses into the union's business, eh? They should get them chopped off, then. We're not all 'comrades' here, compas... One of us is the BOSS -- the other is the WORKER.

    Just give in to the union's demands, "bolivarian socialist" bureaucrats. Then we can all be as chummy as hell.

    It seems that this "bolivarian" elite already has a long history of interfering with worker self-organization, and even manipulating unions and their leaderships. This cannot be allowed to continue in any true socialist democracy. You're on notice, guys.

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