Workers March against Venezuelan Business Federation to Protest “Economic War”
Pro-government trade unions marched against Venezuela’s main business federation last week to protest the “economic war” that workers argue the federation is waging against the government. read more
View ArticleFisheries Unions Demand Dialogue with the Venezuelan Government
In the early hours of last Wednesday morning, the heads of the fishing industry workers' unions of Sucre state announced their request to be incorporated into the mesas económicas (economic tables),...
View ArticleAmid Confusion over Announced Sidor Collective Contract Agreement, Workers...
While representatives from both the Venezuelan government and the workers’ union at the state-owned Sidor steel plant in Ciudad Guyana announced that each side had agreed to terms for a new collective...
View ArticleVenezuelan Government, Sidor Workers Sign New Collective Contract
Workers from the state-owned steel plant Sidor in Guayana City have signed a new collective contract, Minister of Industry José David Cabello announced on Thursday. The contract ends a long-standing...
View ArticleVenezuelan Trade Union Congress Proposes Industrial and Economic Strategy
Venezuela’s largest pro-government trade union federation will today hand President Nicolas Maduro a series of proposals for the greater industrialisation of the economy and strategies to overcome...
View Article50 Leading UK Trade Unionists Show Solidarity With Venezuela
Venezuela Solidarity Campaign We the undersigned – representatives of trade unions and working people in the UK – stand in solidarity with Venezuela’s unions of Railway workers, Urban and transport...
View ArticleWorkers Accuse Venezuela's Largest Food Company of Intimidation
Workers at Venezuela's largest private food company, POLAR, say management is trying to stifle calls for improved wages and conditions.read more
View ArticleOpposition Reports Shooting of Candidate at Political Event, Warring Unions...
Luis Manuel Diaz, a National Assembly candidate for the Roundtable of Democratic Unity (MUD), was shot dead in suspicious circumstances at a political event in the state of Guarico on Wednesday night....
View ArticleVenezuelan Communist Party & Trade Unions Ask President to Pass Workers’...
Venezuela’s Communist Party (PCV) and trade unions have asked the country’s president Nicolas Maduro to approve a law for workers’ control before January 5th, when new rightwing legislators will take...
View ArticleChavista Trade Unionist Kidnapped and Murdered in Venezuela
The killing marks the second assassination of a grassroots socialist leader in two days. read more
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