The legal document relies on the Venezuelan Constitution and labor legislation to argue for wage raises and the conversion of bonuses into salaries.

Caracas, July 15, 2023 (venezuelanalysis.com) – A coalition of grassroots collectives held a demonstration on Friday in Caracas in defense of labor rights.

The so-called Popular Front in Defense of Salaries (Spanish acronym Frenpodes), which brings together a number of leftist Chavista organizations, organized the mobilization to deliver a writ of amparo before the Venezuelan Supreme Court.

The document requests that Venezuela’s maximum judicial authority take action on two matters pertaining to working-class wages. On the one hand, the Frenpodes signatories argue that a minimum wage increase is overdue since Article 91 of the Venezuelan Constitution stipulates that the adjustment take place once a year. The Nicolás Maduro government last raised the minimum wage in March 2022.