Sunday, October 19, 2008

Congressional crisis team guarantees strategic CVG revitalization funding ... but only AFTER November 23 local and regional elections

VHeadline Venezuela News reports: A crisis committee from the National Assembly (AN) Standing Committee on Social Development is to meet Basic Industries & Mining (Mibam), Rodolfo Sanz (who is also corporate president & CEO of the state-owned heavy industry conglomerate, the Venezuelan Guayana Corporation-CVG), together with union representatives and management at CVG-Bauxilum, CVG-Venalum, CVG-Alcasa and CVG-Carbonorca to seek out solutions to a situation that is rapidly running out of control.

Quoted in today's edition of the regional newspaper, El Diario de Guayana, AN deputy (congressman) Rafael Rios says the aim of the meeting is to commit to a comprehensive diagnosis of what's happening in the nation's aluminum sector and look for solutions to the challenges faced by the state-owned businesses in the industrial Guayana region of southeastern Venezuela.

Congressman Rios -- who is chairman of the AN subcommittee on Social Security -- says that a document will be drawn up to allow them to make proposals to President Hugo Chavez for a strategy to address the complex situation.

The AN crisis committee: Victor Lopez, Pastora Medina and Rafael Rios, has been appointed by plenary session of the National Assembly to address the initial problems at CVG-Bauxilum, where workers went on strike demanding the payment of two-years overdue labor liabilities and substantial investments to guarantee the continuity of aluminum production. The 10-day conflict has been brought to an end after an October 3 agreement was reached in the payment of liabilities and technological investment.

Rios says the agreements were reached after conciliatory talks between management and unions with the payment of Bs.F 70 billion (about US$35 billion) in labor liabilities owed to employees, retirees and pensioners. An additional Bs.F 15 billion ($7.5 billion) was agreed for heavy investment to improve the aluminum processing plant's technological capacity and that the funds would be made available November 24-30 (significantly, that's AFTER the November 23 local and regional elections)!

A further meeting is to be held this coming week relative to a missing Bs.F 220 million ($110 million) which had been promised by Mibam's Rodolfo Sanz to the CVG-Bauxilum financial package but has not yet been delivered. The AN crisis team said they would guarantee compliance with the agreements signed to end the labor dispute and to contribute to towards the refurbishment and provision of adequate technology as part of a strategic plan to reactivate the aluminum sector in Bolivar State.

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