social dialogue

Abstract

Good morning, we are asked to talk about social dialogue, indeed, despite the fact that we know that social dialogue is a mechanism created by the International Labor Organization, already of long standing, and since we want to talk specifically about what that means In the case of Venezuela, we can say that the dialogue as such certainly began in Venezuela in 1998, before there was no dialogue. Well, let's see the case of when the important issues were discussed in Venezuela.

Let's start with the Constitution, the Constitution of 1961, no one discussed it, no one voted for it, no one participated in it, three modifications were made to this Constitution and simply no one knew about it, whether it was good or bad, I don't want to say anything about that, There was simply no dialogue, so we must consider that, in effect, the dialogue as such in Venezuela begins with the discussion that President Chávez raised when he offered the Constituent Assembly, which gave rise to the Constitution of 1999.

In any case, social dialogue as such is instituted by the International Labor Organization and what it proposes is that horizontally and in this case, as it is an entity that has to do with labor legislation, with putting the main actors of a problem as is the case of labor, employers, workers and the government, put them in a single plane in such a way that no one imposes on another by the power they may have at a given time, mainly from the government. However, in the broad sense that we consider dialogue as such, it is established as a consultation mechanism, a communication mechanism, which, based on a specific topic, is one of the important things that I will develop a little later.