Venezuela: A proposal for all workers
Get together to fight because it complies with Article 91 of the Constitution.
We have been participating in the various activities of protests and demonstrations by various sectors of workers have here in Caracas in absolute rejection of the claims of the National Government to overturn in one fell swoop the collective agreements, and of course tabulators, what it is de facto, a total lack of trade unions, policy level where everyone on one salary, it's just another little test of arbitrariness, anti-democratic and anti-worker government that is called "workers" company president and.
It is very refreshing and motivating, to see active workers, pensioners Caracas Metro, CANTV, CORPOELEC, Chancery, among others, showing signs of being willing to give the fight against what is a clear violation of fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic or the Organic Labor Law. In that regard and since our main objective is that these struggles are consolidated and further developed, we want to make a proposal that our view would facilitate a channel able to articulate large numbers of workers of all trades.
Backdate a little, we can say that the great weakness that always had the actions carried out by fellow nurses and the health sector in general a few months ago, It was his cry "living wage" was totally empty when the government, within the framework of its "economic recovery plan" led the minimum wage to 1.800 Sovereigns and somehow blew the flag bolivars, it must be asked what it was a living wage, It is that in the situation that some charged two weeks 600.000 Bs. Of the above, suddenly they found themselves with an increase that is 180.000.000 also the above, but that was not half of what it would mean the Basic Food Basket, which it is in accordance with Article 91 of the constitution, the benchmark for setting the minimum wage in the country.
The effects of the economic measures of the government of course would be quite ephemeral and again we have a dynamic that is warming the streets where workers are the protagonists and whose axis revolves around the salary. It is an issue that is vital, we find alike who live in what we charge weekly or biweekly, regardless of our political or theoretical positions and which is capable of being able to become a tool that if we work, we would hit among all.
And it is in relation to the latter that is our proposal, because we are still listening to the cry of "living wages" or also as a result of various factors accompanying concentrations and demonstrations, likewise can be heard slogans like "Down with the Dictatorship" "We want the new government" O "Maduro and go" and that for us is double jeopardy, especially with these slogans that respond to other policies that have nothing to do with our interests, which could see some colleagues who attended an event in the Aula Magna UCV Monday 24 of September, where they were achieved with the same as always marked by the presence of Andres Velasquez, García Arocha Lilian Tintori.
So, for side scattered from the central motif is calling for fellow workers of different paths, we have said is the fight to regain our wages and the other intended to lead us to an alley where we would end up placing our struggles at the service of others responsible for the debacle that we have been.
Such that, we are in the position to get together to fight because it complies with Article 91 of the Constitution it is what is the order of the historical moment for us workers and to us to lay hold of that strut autonomously and classist. It is a concrete proposal may order us to walk together and we can implement with the greatest potential worker competition, question by masificarla help push and enhance a call to all employees in the country, montándonos in the task of building a committee to design the purpose to lead us to a great national mobilization. We get the order to start.
Gustavo Martínez Rubio
