VHeadline Venezuela News reports: Regional newspaper El Diario de Guayana is reporting in its Saturday editions that Venezuelan Guayana Corporation (CVG) unions have called off a national strike by CVG workers following a top-level meeting with Dr. Rodolfo Sanz, president & CEO of the state-owned industrial corporation who is also the current Minister of Basic Industries & Mining (Mibam).
The meeting at CVG HQ in Ciudad Guayana ended with agreement on three union demands (related to a trust fund, working clothes and transport), but the Sunep-CVG union says there are still issues that remain to be resolved and, in view of Sanz' willingness to take on board their concerns, there had been an agreement reached to suspend the strike.
The unions' strongest point in continuing discussions is the question of retroactive pay assessments ... Deputy Labor Minister Abraham Mussa has been assigned to negotiate a settlement and both sides are scheduled to meet again on Monday in what is described as a "positive climate" aimed at reaching a final settlement.
Minister Sand says that he was satisfied with the outcome of Friday's meeting, and in a statement released to press he noted that "the decision by union representatives to suspend the strike and to sit down at the table to achieve dialogue is a major step ... we have on several occasions said that we are willing to recognize three of the four demands."
Sunep-CVF secretary general, Juan Gomez, says that he agreed to suspend strike action in Tucupita, Ciudad Bolivar, Caracas and Guayana in an effort to generate "a climate of labor tranquility between the company and workers to facilitate negotiations." He expects to resolve all remaining points at Monday's meeting.
The CVG has also announced that it will take shortly action to make a payment of Bs.F 40 billion (approximately US$20 billion) into a CVG workers' Fideicomiso (trust fund) as "a sign of willingness" to achieve labor tranquility. That proposal has been on the table for several years but has never been activated despite a series of regional and central government promises.
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