Union rep admits Venezuela electrical grid now in collapse
Sindicato de Corpoelec assures that the national electrical system is totally collapsed
By: Aporrea-GV | Monday, 11/26/2018 1:30 PM
translated from Spanish
The General Secretary of Workers of Corpoelec, Oswaldo Méndez said during an interview in Globovisión that there is a collapse within the electrical industry.
"We have been denouncing the lack of investment, by the State, what is the lack of corrective maintenance (...) the diaspora in the workers is a fact, this sector of reality does not escape" he declared.
He also expressed that the workers of the state enterprise have gone out to demand wage demands.
He said that training a cargo dispatcher who is the one who operates the circuits needs at least two years of training, this staff being underpaid. He added that technical workers with 25 years of experience will charge around 500 to 800 sovereign bs a week.
"Workers who work 24 hours charge 1100 bs Sovereigns a week, this has caused workers to leave"
He denounced the mismanagement by the national government by not making investment in the electric company, while adding that it is impossible to continue operating as is being done at the moment. "You need to motivate the staff, and make a policy so that the worker stays and does not leave, there is even a circular from the company that says that the workers who quit because they want to get it back, but how they come back if we have a HCM of 1200 Bs.S, in a venture company 4 ".
He added that Barquisimeto and the state of Zulia have been affected both by the diaspora of workers within the state enterprise, as well as by crime.
https://www.aporrea.org/energia/n334834.html
800 BsS is about $2.75. By tomorrow, it will be about $2.
