Venezuela Analysis reported that organized workers at Venezuela's state owned steel plant Sidor have spoken out against the Venezuelan government's decision to dismiss the factory's president Mr Carlos D'Oliveira.

Groups of Sidor workers have rallied against the decision to remove Mr D'Oliveira and criticized the government for not having notified the plant's workers' of the decision to dismiss the worker president.

In a statement released by the 35 workers' control working groups at the factory, workers demanded a clarification of the reasons for Mr D'Oliveira's dismissal from the Chavez government.

The statement said that "Worker control is not just decoration, the workers are conscious of their role and we are convinced that the worker control model is the correct path for the management of our factories, and in line with democratic participation and protagonism, we need to be consulted in such a transcendental decision."

Mr D'Oliveira, a member of the Revolutionary Steel Worker's Front, was nominated as company president by the plant's workers in 2010 as part of a plan to implement worker control in the factory. He was responsible for pushing forward the Plan Socialist Guayana, a government backed initiative aimed at implementing a worker control management model in the state owned industries in Guayana, in eastern Venezuela.

Mr D'Oliveira's dismissal comes six months after fellow worker president Mr Elio Sayago, was unilaterally removed from his post in state owned aluminium factory Alcasa.

Source - Venezuela Analysis

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