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Brazil oil workers plan indefinite strike
Brazil’s national oil worker’s federation could start an indefinite strike on Oct. 17 if a pay dispute with state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileira SA is not resolved.
The workers have rejected Petrobras’ proposal offering a raise between 1.17 percent and 1.5 percent while workers want 5 percent, according to a statement on the federation’s website and will meet in coming days to make a decision on the strike.
Workers in the federation held a 24-hour strike on Oct. 3 and had already planned a protest on Oct. 17 against the auction of Brazil’s giant Libra offshore oil area, slated for Oct. 21.
Few strikes at Petrobras have had significant impact on company crude oil or fuels output over the past several years. Brazilian law requires unions representing workers at dangerous and sensitive facilities such as refineries and oil platforms to cooperate with management to maintain skeleton crews and minimum safety levels even during strikes.
2 Comments on "Brazil oil workers plan indefinite strike"
J-Gav on Thu, 10th Oct 2013 9:42 pm
Oh! You mean they sorta forgot about the people who were actually meant to make the miracle come about? Sorry I gotta do the Gomer Pyle thing again – “Surprise, surprise, surprise!”
And, by the way there ain’t gonna be any miracle, no matter how much the workers are (under)paid those deep-drilling areas will cost enough to break any but government subsidized companies.
BillT on Fri, 11th Oct 2013 3:24 am
And the beat goes on… “terrorists’, unions, strikes, wars, inflating expenses, etc. are going to keep prices high and higher as time goes on, until it is beyond the consumer’s ability to buy. Game over.