Union teachers join union nurses in striking in Venezuela.

Unexpo and UCLA call at zero hour and declare themselves unemployed for 24 hours
By Anderson Piña Pereira -June 25, 2018

Translated from Spanish

Once again the university workers expose the difficult economic reality they are experiencing. They explain that they receive hunger salaries and assure that experience and meritocracy are no longer valid in this country.
Faced with this situation and the Government's scant response, the employees decided to leave for twenty-four hours from tomorrow and for the second time in the month, which they called zero time, which could imply an indefinite stoppage of activities in all houses universities and a set of union actions that would radicalize the conflict.

Rubén Darío Albornoz, representative of the Trade Union of Administrative Workers of UCLA, asserted that their labor rights must be respected for what they demand from the national government to comply with wage increases and benefits to prevent Higher Education in Venezuela from deteriorating further.

For the teacher Deborah de Valecillos, president of the Association of Teachers of UCLA (Apuce), the exodus of teachers is already worrying, and the few who remain active "we are almost fulfilling an apostolate, we come by will and not by salary"

A full professor, with postgraduate and years of experience, does not earn more than five million bolivars, "we lost the ability to buy completely", and vacancies, no one wants to occupy them.

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PdVSA and Corpoelec employees have threatened to strike, but they are down to unskilled skeleton crews of die-hard, jobsworth Chavistas who will show up if only to get their CLAP bag delivered next month. Nobody in Chavismo would notice.