Minister Vera: 2016 will close with less unemployment


This year will close with record numbers in the decrease of unemployment and the goal is to continue to advance in the stabilization of labor in 2017, said the Minister for the Social Process of Labor, Oswaldo Vera, who recalled that in times of crisis the Bolivarian Government opted for the protection of the working people.
When interviewed in the “La Pauta de Hoy” (Today’s Schedule) broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión, Vera quoted as one of the achievements of the revolutionary process that the quality of employment has been improved, thanks to the fact that it was possible to revert the conditions of the worker in the informal sector of the economy .
Venezuela, as he emphasized, decreed labor unmobility for three consecutive years, approved wage increases, improved social security conditions and maintained employment levels; while in other neoliberal countries the worker was the main victim of the crisis of capitalism, as in the case of Spain, with the freezing of wages and the flexibilization of labor relations.
Vera assured that the crisis in the economy scope has been conceived as an opportunity for the development of the industrial sector, which, contrary to all forecasts, has allowed to maintain the levels of employment, with the incorporation of new active labor to this sector .
He commented on the case of the Sidor, Alcasa and Venalum companies, in Guayana, enterprises that began to show levels of development and whose production is not only being destined exclusively for export, but for the downstream development of an entire industrial fabric that impacts on labor stability .
“This country lived mainly from the oil income, it had not been developed its entire industrial potential, even whatever little was produced was done with imported raw materials and that did not allowed progress from the labor point of view. At this stage, amidst the crisis, one of the fundamental lines of the National Government, through the Bolivarian Economic Agenda, has been to take advantage of the crisis as an opportunity for the development of the industrial sector. “