Outsourced steel workers paralyze Venezuelan city

[ChangoLoa]

Workers at state-owned steel company Siderúrgica del Orinoco Alfredo Maneiro (Sidor) staged protests for 33 hours and partially blocked access to the city of Puerto Ordaz, south Venezuela.

The outsourced workers, who requested to be hired as permanent staff, met with a Committee of the Vice-President's Office and the Ministry of Basic Industries and Mining (Mibam) and with representatives of Sidor's departments of Finance and Human Resources.

President Hugo Chávez has promised to put an end to outsourcing in the Venezuelan steelmaker, but financial burdens have prevented the government from meeting the schedule of hiring of permanent staff.

http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/111116/outsourced-steel-workers-paralyze-venezuelan-city

[naaman fletcher]

1. must be a CIA operation

workers would never get upset at Chavez.

[ChangoLoa]

2. This government is giving them the most precarious working conditions they've ever had

They promised a full permanent contract to the workers, such as the one they had before the nationalization. It's been 2-3 years and NOTHING. Shameful. As usual, the authoritarian but inefficient pseudo-left betrays the working class.