Táchira | Former CTV president believes that the union movement in Venezuela is in intensive care

Zulma López/ DLA.- Federico Ramírez León, former president of the Confederation of Workers of Venezuela (CTV), believes that The Venezuelan trade union movement is in intensive carea product of the policies that have been applied by the national government.

Ramírez León, who was also president of the Federation of Workers of Táchira (Fetratáchira), said that currently the country’s workers do not have rights, since When they seek to assert their rights in the corresponding instances, they are persecuted and even detained.

“Guyana’s basic companies are the best example. Today, the vast majority of workers in Guayana’s basic companies have made statements regarding the need for political change in the country, not to mention in the center of the country, which is Carabobo, Aragua, Miranda, where the large industrial empires are located. They go to the Ministry of Labor, but are not attended to. They go to the corresponding authorities, many of them are threatened and persecuted,” he said.

The former union leader, who handed over the reins of the CTV and Fetratáchira 24 years ago, said that he has been attentive and aware of the process that has taken place in Venezuela in the last 25 years and that it has caused him pain that workers do not have rights, since there is no authority to turn to in order to defend them, neither through legal means, nor through democratic means, nor through civic means, as Venezuelan unionism has done throughout the world.

He regretted that the great union struggles have disappeared in Venezuela and recalled that the laws that formed part of the Organic Law of Social Security were shelved and today Venezuelan workers are the lowest paid in the world.

Federico Ramírez León accompanied a group of workers belonging to different union organizations who on Tuesday, July 16, announced the creation of the “Luis Hurtado Higuera” Venezuelan Workers Committee in support of the Democratic Unity Roundtable candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia.