Oil workers begin acts and demonstrations at Petrobras units

Oil workers began this Friday (27) a series of acts and strikes at Petrobras units with the aim of pressuring the state-owned company to meet the demands of the Collective Labor Agreement and also resolve structural issues, such as the recomposition of personnel and the withdrawal of subsidiaries of the Privatization Program. This Friday, demonstrations take place in refineries and thermoelectric plants across the country.

On Monday (30), the mobilizations will be carried out at the subsidiaries Transpetro, Petrobras Bio Combustíveis and TBG, the Brazilian carrier of the Brasil Bolivia gas pipeline. On Tuesday (31), the events will take place in the administrative units and, finally, on Wednesday, November 1st, it will be the turn of the production and exploration areas, on the platforms.

The movement was decided at union assemblies held this Thursday (26), which rejected, for the second time and unanimously, the counter-proposal for a Collective Labor Agreement, presented by Petrobras, reported the Brazil Agency.

According to Antony Devalle, director of the Oil Workers Union of Rio de Janeiro (Sindipetro-RJ), among the demands that Petrobras does not accept to negotiate are the health plan, the replacement of 3.8% of past salary losses and 3% of real gain, in addition to the equalization of the subsidiaries’ salary tables.

“The company has been making profits on top of profits, records, and has been distributing fabulous sums to shareholders. So, it is only fair that, for the workers, who are the ones who ultimately produce this profit, they also have this reward. In part [recompensa] financial, but a large part [das demandas] These are rights that do not have as many expenses involved by the company”, he said.

The union leader recalled that Petrobras workers are on strike, also approved in the assemblies, but that he believes that negotiations with the state-owned company will progress without the need for a strike. In a note, Petrobras informed that it is in the process of negotiating the 2023/2025 Collective Agreement with unions and that, to date, it has not been officially notified about strikes.