Shadow PDVSA board condemns return to work letter
www.vheadline.com Posted: Monday, January 27, 2003 - 1:48:16 PM By: Patrick J. O'Donoghue
The dismissed opposition "shadow" Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) board has published a draft letter alleged to have been sent by the legitimate PDVSA board to employees who are willing to return to work.
Dubbing the current PDVSA management illegal, the 'Gente del Petroleo' group says workers who joined the national stoppage will be forced to sign what amounts to a confession, indicating that they abandoned their jobs illegally and without prior notice, in obediance to "illegal orders of those who had been supervisors and managers … causing serious damage to the company and country creating cause for dismissal according to Labor law Artcle 102 "… and giving assurances not to take part in similar irregularities in the future."
- In its usual daily oil industry update the group claims that only 411 of Venezuela's 1,811 gas pump stations have gasoline supplies,
- No supplies have been dispatched to Vargas or Caracas.
- Maracaibo has been without gasoline since Saturday
- El Palito refinery is at a complete standstill.
- Production currently stands at 986,000 bpd