“With these starvation pensions, we don’t even know how we’re supposed to eat”: IVSS retirees call for action as the Bolívar continues to fall

“With these starvation pensions, we don’t even know how we’re supposed to eat,” stressed the vice president of the National Union of Retired Workers of the Venezuelan Social Security Institute (IVSS). By Vanessa Davies Carlos Julio Rivera, vice president of the National Union of Retired Workers of the Venezuelan Social Security Institute (IVSS), says he […]

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PDVSA Retirees Demand Overhaul of Healthcare System and Payment of Labor Liabilities

The Daily Journal — Retired workers of state-owned oil company PDVSA in Falcón state, western Venezuela, urgently called for an overhaul of the corporation’s healthcare system and warned that they could take their protests to the company’s headquarters in Caracas if management fails to address their healthcare and wage-related demands. During a general assembly at […]

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