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Message: CVG-Minerven union ask SAnz...regards to Helca
CVG-Minerven union asks Mibam's Rodolfo Sanz to understand that "you must first tie the cow to feed the calf!"
VHeadline Venezuela News reports: Sunday editions of the newspaper Correo del Caroni report that Gold Industry Workers Union (Sinmioro) secretary general Elby Soto is urging urges the Basic Industries & Mining (Mibam) Minister Rodolfo Sanz to visit the Venezuelan Guayana Corporation (CVG) gold-mining subsidiary CVG-Minerven to inform the workers about details in the handover of Minerven's block "B" interests to Russian Agapov last Thursday.
Soto says there are "certain rumors circulating" in El Callao and that CVG-Minerven workers have "reservations" over "negotiations" concerning the two mines that were previously administered by Idaho-USA-based Hecla's PMG.
"We know that agreement was reached with the Russians on important social works in the communities where Hecla had done absolutely nothing, but the reality is that when we met with CVG-Minerven president Luis Herrera, he was reluctant to inform us about what will happen or to give us details ... even now, we really do not know anything."
Soto believes that Herrera's wall-of-silence has more to do with a gag order imposed by Mibam's Rodolfo Sanz after earlier statements by CVG officials that may have affected sensitive negotiations but he adds: "We don't know where we're going ... there is uncertainty because we do not know ... the president (Luis Herrera) continues to discuss vital issues with union leaders. I call on Minister Sanz to come to Minerva .. we have given every opportunity already to Luis Herrera ... but we need to see what had been done ... they have put more than one hundred and sixty persons in violation of two collective agreements and even on Friday there was news of a shutdown, with many turned away the gate. "
"We have always had work lists taking outside workers at the gate ... now they are threatening a lockout. It is CVG president Herrera who has created the uncertainty because he refuses to tell us what will happen ... so we are again calling on the Minister Rodolfo Sanz to resolve the situation, urgently!"
As regards "certain disagreements" with Luis Herrera and his refusal to meet the unions, Soto says "the president of CVG-Minerven does NOT own the company, he is a manager and, just the same as the administrative workers, we can only look on with great concern as the company rushes headlong into decline ... this can not go on like this, they must understand that you must first tie the cow to feed the calf!"
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Soto says there are "certain rumors circulating" in El Callao and that CVG-Minerven workers have "reservations" over "negotiations" concerning the two mines that were previously administered by Idaho-USA-based Hecla's PMG.
"We know that agreement was reached with the Russians on important social works in the communities where Hecla had done absolutely nothing, but the reality is that when we met with CVG-Minerven president Luis Herrera, he was reluctant to inform us about what will happen or to give us details ... even now, we really do not know anything."
Soto believes that Herrera's wall-of-silence has more to do with a gag order imposed by Mibam's Rodolfo Sanz after earlier statements by CVG officials that may have affected sensitive negotiations but he adds: "We don't know where we're going ... there is uncertainty because we do not know ... the president (Luis Herrera) continues to discuss vital issues with union leaders. I call on Minister Sanz to come to Minerva .. we have given every opportunity already to Luis Herrera ... but we need to see what had been done ... they have put more than one hundred and sixty persons in violation of two collective agreements and even on Friday there was news of a shutdown, with many turned away the gate. "
"We have always had work lists taking outside workers at the gate ... now they are threatening a lockout. It is CVG president Herrera who has created the uncertainty because he refuses to tell us what will happen ... so we are again calling on the Minister Rodolfo Sanz to resolve the situation, urgently!"
As regards "certain disagreements" with Luis Herrera and his refusal to meet the unions, Soto says "the president of CVG-Minerven does NOT own the company, he is a manager and, just the same as the administrative workers, we can only look on with great concern as the company rushes headlong into decline ... this can not go on like this, they must understand that you must first tie the cow to feed the calf!"
VHeadline Venezuela News
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