Workers' representatives and trade union activists from around the country met in Caracas on October 21-22, in the National Gathering of Workers towards the Recovery of Companies. The main aim of this meeting, called by Venezuela’s National Workers’ Union (UNT), was to bring together workers involved in experiences of factory occupations and different forms of workers’ management.

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Durante dos días, 21 y 22 de octubre, representantes obreros y activistas sindicales de todo el país se reunieron en Caracas en el Encuentro Nacional de Trabajadores hacia la Recuperación de Empresas. El objetivo principal de esta reunión, convocada por la Unión Nacional de Trabajadores de Venezuela (UNT), fue reunir a los trabajadores implicados en experiencias de ocupaciones de fábricas y en diferentes formas de gestión obrera.

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At the beginning of 2005, president Chávez nominated Carlos Lanz a head of the nationalized aluminium company, Alcasa. From his arrival at the head of the company he began a process of “co-management” which has made this company a political symbol and this experience a national test. We interviewed a member of Lanz’s team, Rafael Rodriguez.

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Marcela Maspero of the pro-Chavez union federation UNT and José Gregorio Villarroel of the Labor Ministry explain to Green Left Weekly's Frederico Fuentes how they see the recent intensification of expropriations of idle land and businesses.

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