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The annual average of workers in the oil and gas sector fell by 2,4% between 2020 and 2021, according to the FUP
A survey carried out by the Single Federation of Petroleum Workers (FUP), based on the latest Continuous National Household Sample Survey (Continuous PNAD) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), showed that, in the annual average of the quarters of 2021, the total of workers in the oil and gas sector in Brazil fell by around 2,4%, which resulted in a reduction from 159.086 to 155.227 jobs. The data available in the survey was up to the third quarter of last year.
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The fall also occurred in the income of workers in the extraction area and respective support activities, which, according to the PNAD, suffered an approximate average decrease of 9,5% in their income.
Rafael Rodrigues da Costa, who is a researcher at the Institute for Strategic Studies on Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (Ineep), was the one who analyzed the data together with economists from the Center for Political Economy of Petroleum (Cepetro) Pedro Gilberto Cavalcante Filho and Claudiane de Jesus .
“Petrobras' exit from some segments, and the consequent entry of private companies, has not yet had positive effects either in the generation of new jobs or in the increase in income”, points out the FUP.
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start of retraction
Since 2015, Petrobras has made a total of 378 assets available for sale in the state of Bahia, which represents 31% of the oil company's divestment portfolio. Currently, in the state, the decrease in jobs reached 28,9%, according to the annual average of 2021, compared to 2020. This number represents a decrease of 7 thousand jobs (from 25.788, in 2020, to 18.328 in 2021) , reported the FUP study.
In Salvador, the decrease in wages in the oil and gas segment reached the mark of 22,9%, which means having gone from an average income of approximately R$ 7.180,00, until the third quarter of 2020, to a remuneration close to of BRL 5.140,00 in the same months in 2021.
FUP points out that, although the coronavirus pandemic should also be taken into account as an important factor for jobs to have suffered a decrease, the retraction in the Bahian labor market is a reality that has been happening together with the start of the divestment program from Petrobras in 2015. The researcher from Ineep Rodrigues da Costa explained this scenario, based on IBGE data.
In the third quarter of 2015, the segment employed up to 37.890 people. Today, the Bahian oil sector occupies less than 8.760 jobs in the region, according to statistics for the third quarter of PNAD 2021. The data is visible by comparing the number of jobs in the oil and gas area in Bahia to the Petrobras divestment program.
“A drop in employment and wages and an increase in the prices of consumer products are harmful effects of the same phenomenon, which is the policy of creating regional private monopolies, resulting from the mistaken sale of Petrobras assets,” said the general coordinator of the FUP, Deyvid Bacelar.
