VHeadline Venezuela News reports: Although it has been announced that Dr. Rodolfo Sanz is to be replaced at the Ministry of Basic Industries & Mining (Mibam) with immediate effect, his main critics now complain that while the Venezuelan Guayana Corporation (CVG) and its main subsidiaries need immediate resolutions to outstanding labor, production and investment problems, he remains as an integral part of President Hugo Chavez Frias' top administration team currently in Manaus (Brazil) for today's 3-nation summit -- Venezuela, Brazil and Bolivia.
Sanz' main critics in the labor unions say there has been adequate opportunity over the last six days since a contingency plan was implemented at CVG-Bauxilum (aluminum processing), with 144 hours of continuous production and the mass participation of labor and union representatives towards a solution, for Sanz to reach a solution to a conflict that affects more than 3,600 direct employees at CVG-Bauxilum who fear for their jobs after four years of investment and managerial neglect.
The now-ex-Minister has chosen to travel internationally with the President of the Republic and CVG workers say it makes a mockery of any ministerial post may have claimed to exercise ... in fact he appears to have been so "out of touch" with the realities on the ground at the CVG (of which he has also been president & CEO) that he was shocked into making an international phone call from Beijing last Tuesday to fire Hector Herrera Jimenez, who has been president of CVG-Bauxilum for only 11 days after being appointed behind Sanz' back by Vice President Ramon Carrizalez.
The unions say that it is the responsibility of each executive at the CVG to concentrate on the job in hand -- i.e. managing the company and resolving labor problems etc -- and that Sanz is leaving behind him a string of broken promises ranging from the approval of more than US$100 million in funding to pay suppliers and contractors as well as outstanding liabilities to CVG workers and an investment plan which has not yet seen the light of day.
Antonio Rivas, general secretary of the CVG-Suprabaux union says it demonstrates the (lack of) commitment by the (now ex-) Mibam Minister to the Guayana region and its workers, who have been patiently waiting for the investment plans to kick in to guarantee the fiscal continuity of the CVG subsidiaries. "We want to secure the administrative and operational continuity of our company, which, if it falls apart, will be the product of a critical lack of input material as well as the scarcity of spare parts because of the crippling debts the CVG has with its contractors, suppliers and cooperatives without whom CVG-Bauxilum could not have been kept afloat for the last eight months."
Rivas adds that "everyone is aware of the situation, which is why we've raised the use of the company resources with the directors to repotentiate the company, above and beyond the debts it already has with labor, since we are dependent on our jobs. Our labor liabilities have remained unpaid since 1991, and when Sanz does not inject necessary resources into the company, it means only bread for today while hunger awaits us for tomorrow."
"For CVG-Bauxilum to remain in business, it is NOT about defending the interests of a President or a political party but of the entire industry ... so we demand a solution is reached soon before the crisis gets any worse. We are NOT protesting the sacking of Lt. Col. Hector Herrera Jimenez or of General Carlos Acosta Perez ... what we want is for the presidents to assume the reins of CVG Bauxilum to be aware of the company processes and last longer in the job so as to give greater administrative and operational continuity."
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