Petrobras workers announced, this Wednesday (10/12), the approval of a national strike starting at midnight next Monday (15/12), after the failure of negotiations between the company and the Single Federation of Oil Workers (FUP), which represents the category.
According to the workers, the counter-proposal presented by Petrobras for the Collective Labor Agreement (ACT) was “insufficient”. The new proposal was presented by the oil company on Tuesday (12/09).
Among the main points under discussion is the search for a negotiated solution for Petros’ deficit compensation plans (PED), which directly affect the income of retirees and pensioners.
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Petros is the Petrobras Social Security Foundation, a pension fund created in 1970 by Petrobras to manage the supplementary pension plans of its employees. It is the second largest pension fund in the country.
What the FUP says
Workers also defend what they call improvements to employment and wage plans, as well as guarantees of recovery without the application of budgetary adjustment mechanisms.
“With the rejection of the second counter-proposal, the unions will inform the company of the strike on Friday,” informed the FUP.
“If the company does not take into account the three axes approved by the category, we have no reason to submit this counter-proposal to the assemblies,” declared the general coordinator of the FUP, Deyvid Bacelar.
“It is unacceptable that after almost three years of debates and negotiations with the FUP and the other entities that make up the Petros Participants Defense Forum, Petrobras has not yet formalized its position regarding the end of PEDs, presenting a proposal that resolves this problem once and for all,” continued Bacelar.
“We are talking about a company whose sector is capital intensive, where less than 7% of its total expenses are personnel costs. It makes no sense in the current government, that the management of the company, given the billions of dollars in profits made by the workers, would disrespect the category in the way they did.”
In a note published Tuesday evening, the FUP also stated that the entity and its unions “advise workers of the Petrobras system to continue participating in the assemblies that overwhelmingly approve the call for strike starting from Monday 15.”
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