Last week the public sector unions met with the Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council in an effort to break the deadlock.
The Public Servants Association has given up on an independent facilitation attempt to try to break a wage deadlock.
It has declared a dispute - which means its 235 000 members could go on strike by the second week of June.
Other unions are still continuing with the ten-day independent facilitation process, which started on Sunday.
The Public Servants Association (PSA) has given up on an attempt to solve a public sector wage deadlock by roping in additional help from the UN s International Labour Organisation to facilitate talks.
Twelve-year-old Moises Bracamonte knows how to prepare fertiliser and water the black beans and corn that his family grows in Venezuela’s western Tachira state. He says the most difficult part of agricultural work is “breaking the ground” to sow the seeds without a tractor or an ox.
“Why is it difficult with a pick? Because the pick is heavy, and you have to do a lot of picking if you have a lot of seeds,” he said in an interview in the living room of his house in Cordero, a town some 800km (500 miles) southwest of Caracas.
With schools closed and no access to the internet, Moises and his 11-year-old brother Jesus help their father, also named Moises, 58, grow the food that provides for their family, something they almost never did before the coronavirus pandemic.
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CORDERO/CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Twelve-year-old Moises Bracamonte knows how to prepare fertilizer and water the black beans and corn that his family grows in Venezuela’s western Tachira state. He says the most difficult part of agricultural work is “breaking the ground” to sow the seeds without a tractor or an ox.
“Why is it difficult with a pick? Because the pick is heavy, and you have to do a lot of picking if you have a lot of seeds,” he said in an interview in the living room of his house in Cordero, a town some 800 km (500 miles) southwest of Caracas.
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Twelve-year-old Moises Bracamonte knows how to prepare fertilizers and irrigate the black beans and corn his family grows in the Venezuelan state of Tachira. He says the hardest part of farming is “breaking the ground” to sow seeds without a tractor or ox.
“Why is it difficult with a choice? Because it’s a heavy choice, and because you have to do a lot of picking if you have a lot of seeds, ”he said in an interview in the living room of his home in Cordero, a town 800 km southwest of Caracas.