PDVSA reportedly firing 12,000 workers

May 3, 2005

In a very strange development that had been rumored for quite a while, El Nacional and Unionradio
are reporting that PDVSA is firing 12,000 workers. According to El
Nacional PDVSA is paying severance to 12,000 workers under contract of
which it may rehire 4,000. According to Unionradio, these are the
pro-Chavez workers hired after the strike in 2002-2003. One report
claims that they are being fired for carrying out a silent slowdown,
while others claim there is simply no work for them due to the drop in
production. A union leader says most of these workers were simply hired
so that they would vote for Chavez in 2004 and their role has been
fuillfilled. All of the workers fired are from the Western region
(PDVSA Occidente) of the
country.

This entry was posted on May 3, 2005 at 10:39 am and is filed under Venezuela.

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