What's needed are revolutionary unionists ... "NOT bootlickers to the hierarchy of government of the day!"

VHeadline Venezuela News reports: Venezuelan Guayana Corporation (CVG) aluminum subsidiary CVG-Venalum president (and 'interim' president of CVG-Bauxilum) Alfredo Arcila is being accused of making supreme efforts "to conceal his own executive failures". CVG-Venalum union representative Manuel Diaz says the situation is "very serious" following remarks made by Arcila (who is also vice president of the state-owned industrial conglomerate CVG) that disenchanted corporation employees are attempting to orchestrate violent "guarimbas" (violent protests) and even a coup d'etat against President Hugo Chavez Frias.

Quoted in Tuesday editions of the regional newspaper El Guayanese, Dias says "We find these to be very serious allegations because with these ridiculous assertions, this gentleman is seeking to hide his own inability and ineffectiveness in exercising such important positions within the CVG."

Dias continues: "We have pointed out, ad nauseam, that the choice of officials of such importance should be according to their technical capacity and NOT political affiliations ... the state-owned companies are precisely in the chaotic situation they are because they are being depriving of technical criteria in management over cronyism and "compadrazgo" (corrupt political godfathering). This must end once and for all. If this is Socialism, we do not want the kind of socialism that is threatening the welfare of the region, the stability of the workers and the financial well-being of these vital industries."

The CVG-Venalum union leader says that in his view, "the abysmal handling of the crisis, following the departure (sacking) of Hector Herrera Jimenez (from the 8-day presidency of CVG-Bauxilum) demonstrates the limited capacity that political appointees have to respond to such complex problems ... the same has happened with Arcila and his subordinates. What is most annoying to employees is the arrogance that has been shown by those who have been placed in key positions since he (Arcila) was appointed."

Dias has called on the corporate president of the Venezuela Guayana Corporation (CVG), Basic Industries & Mining (Mibam) Minister, Rodolfo Sanz to more closely monitor what is happening since there is widespread anarchy which is affecting the efficiency and capacity of the state-owned corporation and its affiliates."

Sutrapuval union secretary, Andres Rengel, lends his voice to Dias' call for executive action saying that "the working class has defended these companies for many years ... we are now appealing to Minister Rodolfo Sanz to place the conduct of these plants in professional -- NOT political -- executive hands and to encourage career executives who are trained, technically and administratively, to do the job properly. We do NOT want these paratroopers, who are 'lost in space' and who also get astronomical salaries that have been denied to the key career staff who were their predecessors."

"Today, more than ever, direct and indirect jobs generate by the CVG subsidiaries are at risk. We are forced to ask the President of the Republic, Hugo Chavez Frias to give due attention to the management of these industrial plants. What is going on today in these factories is exactly what happened with Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) some years ago ... they are a 'black hole' ... they have become a state-within-a-state and this can NOT continue ... we are calling on the entire national union leadership to promote the defense of these crucial companies, over political differences."

The unions are questioning why National Assembly (AN) deputies Jose Gil and Angel Marcano did nothing before and/or during the 8-day crisis to resolve matters "when it was obvious that everything was falling apart!"

Evidence enough, they say, that what is truly needed are revolutionary unionists, NOT bootlickers to the hierarchy of the government of the day!"

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