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CANTV retirees and pensioners protest in Caracas over unpaid benefits and restored health coverage

From El Nacional · () Spanish

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  • CANTV retirees, pensioners and survivors protested in Caracas, alleging that the state telecommunications company stopped paying a $50 monthly supplement after two months.
  • Their representative said about 11,000 former employees nationwide were affected and demanded enforcement of collective labor benefits.
  • The protesters also reported suspended private medical coverage, delayed specialist appointments and unpaid reimbursements for medicines and emergency surgeries.

CANTV retirees and pensioners marched to the area around Plaza Caracas on Friday to submit a complaint to Venezuela’s Labor Ministry, joining simultaneous protests across the country.

Former executives, pensioners and survivors of the state telecommunications company said CANTV had breached contractual commitments. Their immediate complaint concerned a $50 supplement set on April 30. The payment was made for only two months before the company stopped it without warning.

What brings us here today, before the Labor Ministry, is a request we must present to it. We are demanding action over the company’s failure to pay a difference of about $50, decreed by the interim administration, which CANTV paid in April and May but suddenly eliminated afterward.

· Iberto GarridoThe retirees’ representative explained the complaint over the suspended payment.

“What brings us here today, before the Labor Ministry, is a request we must present to it. We are demanding action over the company’s failure to pay a difference of about $50, decreed by the interim administration, which CANTV paid in April and May but suddenly eliminated afterward,” said Iberto Garrido, a representative of the Association of Retirees, Pensioners and Survivors for the Caracas area.

Garrido said the dispute affected 11,000 retirees, pensioners and survivors nationwide. “This is a claim by 11,000 retirees, pensioners and survivors across the country, demanding labor benefits that the company is failing to honor and violating,” he said.

This is a claim by 11,000 retirees, pensioners and survivors across the country, demanding labor benefits that the company is failing to honor and violating.

· Iberto GarridoHe described the nationwide scale of the dispute.

The group also denounced the suspension of private medical coverage, nearly a year of halted specialist consultations and delays in reimbursing medicines and emergency surgeries. Garrido urged the Labor Ministry to intervene with CANTV’s management and restore the health benefits contained in the collective agreement.

“Most of the people here receive 100% medical assistance from the company at different clinics and institutions. It has to fulfill that benefit in full,” he said.

Most of the people here receive 100% medical assistance from the company at different clinics and institutions. It has to fulfill that benefit in full.

· Iberto GarridoHe demanded the restoration of medical coverage promised under the collective agreement.
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Originally published by El Nacional in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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