here is the rest of the article since its a "no derivatives" copy right.

Workers said that where as 15 to 20 food distribution trucks used to arrive at the plant daily, now only one, two, or none arrive. They said they believed the “irregularities” are part of a plan to bankrupt the company and “hand it over to the right wing bourgeoisie business people”.

The rallying workers told Aporrea that because of the “ferocious sabotage” by their management and the food ministry they feel worker control is necessary. The “bureaucracy has taken the company to the point of collapse”, while the workers are “fighting to take it forward”, they argued.

Workers said that Lacteos president Jairo Areyano has been “completely absent” from the plants and demanded that he be fired. One worker commented that Lacteos is “self sufficient”.

“We are for worker control as the only way of guaranteeing production and distribution, and that the surplus goes to the Venezuelan people and the workers. We aren’t fighting for any benefits [for ourselves], we want to recover the plants,” the worker continued.

Lacteos workers want to manage the new budget, as well as administration, sales and distribution.

In a press release, the Lacteos Los Andes company reported a 15.4% increase in production in July compared to June. However other Lacteos workers, protesting last Wednesday outside the Valencia plant, said that due to a lack of primary material, production has decreased by 40% over the last six months.

The Venezuelan government nationalised Lacteos Los Andes in 2008. During 2007 Lacteos had decreased production in order to create milk scarcity and increase its sale price. It was also allocating most of its milk to products like yoghurt, which are more profitable than ordinary milk. The milk scarcity also occurred in the lead up to the 2007 constitutional referendum. The private company was first founded in 1986, coming out of the old Leche Lacteos Merida.

While most products that were scarce following former president Hugo Chavez’s death and in the lead-up to and after the April presidential elections, are now available, if intermittently, powdered milk remains hard to get.

for the Venezuelan government.

Are you feeling O.K., little fella?

I think it is instructive.

it must be lonely.

When a website that supports (read: not owned or controlled by) any government writes something critical about it, it's usually means it's speaking more truthfully and objectively. Or do you honestly think that this government would willingly allow anyone under their employment to publicly talk critically about them? Case in point, Alberto Nolia. A few weeks ago his program "Los Papeles de Mandinga" was taken off the air from VTV, the most state-subsidized channel in Venezuela, right after he talked critically about the government's plan to disarm criminals and prisoners, as stated by this article from another government-run website, so you don't question my credibility: http://albaciudad.org/wp/index.php/2013/08/alberto-nolia-aun-desconozco-quien-es-el-padrino-de-la-ley-desarme-y-quien-solicito-mi-salida-de-vtv/

This makes a lot of sense: "hey said they believed the “irregularities” are part of a plan to bankrupt the company and “hand it over to the right wing bourgeoisie business people”".

This was used a lot during the neoliberal catastrophic period, in several L.A. countries. They used to dismantle companies, boycott them, reduce their assets to sell them for banana price to obscure partners in the private sphere.

And yet another evidence of an attempt to induce a food crisis in Venezuela.

See! We agree on things.

Wonder if they'll be arrested now since Maduro claims he's all about fighting corruption and all. That is, if Felix Osorio or any other official with enough authority from the central government even bother to listen to the workers' protests. So what side to take? The chavista administration's side or the chavista workers' side?

It would be good to listen to Osorio and other government officials regarding this issue. If Osorio is somehow taking part in this, yes, he should be fired and held accountable if he violated local laws.

I have no doubts that there are "freeloaders" and corrupted politicians in the Venezuelan government - as in any other government, from right to left. Power attracts this kind of people. Maduro does well trying to send them away.

Not gonna win a lot of votes if their own people are bringing state-owned companies to ruin.