sacking of the labor minister:
The move appears to be a repudiation of recent actions of the Labor Minister, who only two days prior, held a joint press conference with one faction of the National Union of Workers (UNT)—the Bolivarian Socialist Workers Force (FSBT)—and announced the formation of a new national labor federation calling on unions to disaffiliate from the UNT.
(...) [proposals for resuscitating the UNT] As a way forward Pérez Borges said Socialist Tide was proposing a meeting “between all the currents that are active within the UNT and the revolutionary process to give firm steps towards the necessary regrouping and unification of a worker’s leadership consistent with the process but democratic, pluralist, and independent of the state.” As the second step towards a workers movement capable of “occupying the place that it deserves in the Bolivarian revolution” Pérez Borges said Socialist Tide was also calling for a united mobilization and march in Caracas on May 1. Thirdly, it is necessary to “initiate a democratic process within the working class, their grassroots unions and their natural leaders to re-group and reorganize the UNT, without exclusions of any currents who support the revolution,” he explained.