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Oil workers from Norte Fluminense complain of contamination by covid-19 on Petrobras oil platforms, in the Campos Basin, and are due to strike on Monday (03)
A new strike by Petrobras oil workers is coming this Monday (3), according to information from the Single Federation of Oil Workers (FUP). Oil workers are mobilizing against Petrobras' working conditions during this period of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the Monitoring Bulletin, there are more than 6.000 infected employees.
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Petrobras oil platform in the Campos Basin registers high number of contaminated cases and a new strike by oil workers will emerge
According to the FUP, there is an outbreak of covid-19 on the Petrobras oil platform, which could trigger a new strike by oil workers this Monday (03). According to data from the ANP, there are more than 500 contaminated oil tankers on vessels in the month of April alone. Petrobras workers work in the Campos Basin, the second largest oil and natural gas producing region.
The FUP also stated that several other oil platforms, in addition to the Campos Basin, are suffering from the outbreak of covid, however, Petrobras is refusing to comply with the laws required by the government to avoid contagion and not generate a strike of oil workers. By law, unions can only call a strike if there is approval by the company's employees in an assembly. In the case of the state company, this could happen immediately, as assemblies had already taken place before, and the oil workers had already authorized the strike in the Campos Basin.
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A FUP He added that, last week, he tried to close a negotiation with Petrobras regarding working conditions on oil platforms during the covid pandemic, however, the attempts were unsuccessful. The strike will not only be for carrying out covid-19 tests in the middle, at the end of the scale and on boarding platforms. The oil tankers also ask that the control be carried out for workers who work on land and demand that all workers receive PFF2 protection masks from Petrobras.
The desperation that the new oil workers' strike could generate
The FUP claims that, every week, it receives desperate requests from workers who report cases of covid-19 on the Campos Basin oil platform. Employees spend about 14 days or more in these environments, that is, more than enough time for them to arrive contaminated on an oil platform and end up infecting several other teammates.
The entity claims that it is registering outbreaks of covid in several others not mentioned in recent months, with the landing, sometimes, of up to 20 workers.
Monitoring Bulletin
It was disclosed by Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), last Monday (26/4), the 54th Monitoring Bulletin, which points out more than 6.000 cases of covid contamination on Petrobras oil platforms.
According to the bulletin, at the moment, there are 192 confirmed cases, 6.153 recovered, 26 deaths and 47 hospitalized. However, this bulletin does not include third-party workers who make up a large portion of the workforce on the platforms.
