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Former Goodyear workers, Chavista minister occupy closed plant, now owners of means of production
Goodyear workers occupy plant in Valencia to reactivate operationsBy: Agencia Venezolana de Noticias (AVN) | Saturday, 12/22/2018 08:05 AM
Translated from Spanish
21 Dec. 2018 - The workers of the company Goodyear tire producer of Venezuela, occupied this Friday the plant located in the state Carabobo to comply with Article 149 of the Organic Labor Law of Workers and Workers, after the illegal closure that the past 10 December carried out the transnational at its plant in Valencia.
The event had an assembly of workers in which the Minister for the Social Process of Labor, Eduardo Piñate, participated, who reiterated the support and accompaniment of the National Government to the working masses to restart production in this company.
"We have made the formal act of application of Article 149 of the Organic Labor Law that includes the occupation of the company by the working class, while we as Ministry of Labor, as mandated by law, we endorse that process of occupation by the workers, "the official explained.
Minister Piñate announced that in the next few days the board of directors of the plant will be appointed, which will be made up of a representation of the workers and also of the company, if it manifests it, in addition to the ministry.
"We have absolute confidence in the Venezuelan working class, the working class of Goodyear, who will put into operation this plant that will take the production of the country forward and that the Venezuelan people will have enough (raw materials) to continue recovering the automotive fleet," he said.
The transnational Goodyear ceased operations at its only plant in Venezuela located in Valencia on December 10. The only notification he gave to his 1,200 workers was through a statement placed on the surveillance gate that workers found when they arrived at the workday.
The event had an assembly of workers in which the Minister for the Social Process of Labor, Eduardo Piñate, participated, who reiterated the support and accompaniment of the National Government to the working masses to restart production in this company.
"We have made the formal act of application of Article 149 of the Organic Labor Law that includes the occupation of the company by the working class, while we as Ministry of Labor, as mandated by law, we endorse that process of occupation by the workers, "the official explained.
Minister Piñate announced that in the next few days the board of directors of the plant will be appointed, which will be made up of a representation of the workers and also of the company, if it manifests it, in addition to the ministry.
"We have absolute confidence in the Venezuelan working class, the working class of Goodyear, who will put into operation this plant that will take the production of the country forward and that the Venezuelan people will have enough (raw materials) to continue recovering the automotive fleet," he said.
The transnational Goodyear ceased operations at its only plant in Venezuela located in Valencia on December 10. The only notification he gave to his 1,200 workers was through a statement placed on the surveillance gate that workers found when they arrived at the workday.
https://www.aporrea.org/trabajadores/n336038.html
Article 149 of the Organic Labor Law of Workers is a Chavista law that says a business once in business cannot go out of business without permission from Chavismo. If such a business folds without permission, Chavismo reserves the right to throw ownership and management into prison and confiscate the assets of the business. Which is why everyone in management at Goodyear was out of the country when the ax fell. Naturally, if the company gets permission to close, it is only because it has already jailed the ownership and management, and nationalized the business for the glory of the patria/fatherland. SEE? A winner every time!
Goodyear joins a long list of businesses that have closed recently. GM, Clorox, Bridgestone, Kimberly Clark, Smurfit Kappa to name just a few. And once ownership abandons the factory, the Chavists loot the property of anything of value, and then gift the shell to the workers, who as Marx would say, are now "owners of the means of production". Whereupon, the produce nothing.
Maduro is now in the process of doing the only thing he knows how to do. Make a speech about El Imperio, confiscate the factory, loot it and "give" it to the employees. Wash, rinse, repeat for the last 19 years.