Two workers killed in Venezuela, while defending the occupied Mitsubitshi factory

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In the afternoon of Wednesday, January 29 (Venezuelan time), two workers were killed by police in the state of Anzoategui, Venezuela. The workers killed are Pedro Suarez from the Mitsubishi factory and José Marcano from nearby auto parts factory Macusa. They were killed when regional police of Anzoategui was attempting to evict hundreds of workers who had been occupying the Mitsubitshi (MMC) factory.

The workers of Mitsubitshi had occupied the plant on the 22nd of January. The immediate reason was that 135 workers working in the factory but hired through subcrontractor Induservis, were left without jobs when the MMC management decided to stop any cooperation with Induservis. In an mass meeting of Mitsubitshi with 893 workes present, 863 voted in favour of occupation. While demanding that the 135 sacked workers be re-incorporated as full contracted workers in the Mitsubitshi plant, the workers also linked their struggle to the demand for nationalization as the only solution to the conflicts in the factories Vivex, Franelas Gotcha, Industria Nacional de Artículos de Ferretería (INAF) and Acerven.
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