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Petrobras Fails To Reach Agreement With Subsidiary And Employees Announce Indefinite Strike Starting This Thursday (05/20)
After failing to reach an agreement, workers at Petrobras Biocombustível (PBio) went on strike indefinitely, starting at 7 AM this Thursday (05/20). This movement is a response to the management’s intolerance at Petrobras, which refused to negotiate the maintenance of jobs for workers of the subsidiary that is in the final stages of being privatized. See also: The Strike of Oil Workers Was Confirmed on May 3rd on Petrobras Oil Platforms in the Campos Basin
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Strike Of Workers At PBio (Petrobras Biocombustível)
The workers at Petrobras Biocombustível are demanding transfer to other Petrobras units. However, the state-owned company is using the sale model of PBio as a legal impossibility to meet the demands of FUP – Unique Federation of Oil Workers and affiliated unions.
Alexandre Finamori, coordinator of Sindipetro Minas Gerais, says that the strike at Petrobras Biocombustível units is demanding the maintenance of jobs for the career employees of the units, who have already received all the necessary training to work in the company. Alexandre also points out that, in 2019, the workers were promised that they would be relocated to other areas of the Petrobras System in case of sale of the subsidiary.
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Meanwhile, Sindipetro Bahia states that the strike movement is the last resort due to the intransigence of the former management of Petrobras. The workers, FUP, and the leadership of Sindipetros are seeking, through the movement, to reopen negotiations with the new management of the state-owned company to reconsider sending these workers for summary dismissal by the new company. The goal is to change the sale model so that the workers remain in the Petrobras System.
PBio Units That Will Be Halted
According to the Unique Federation of Oil Workers, the strike at Petrobras Biocombustível will halt activities at the biofuel plants in the municipalities of Candeias, in the state of Bahia, and the city of Montes Claros, in Minas Gerais, as well as the headquarters of the subsidiary, located in Rio de Janeiro. The Quixadá plant, in the state of Ceará, which has also been put up for sale, like the other units, has been inactive for more than four years.
The privatization of PBio – Petrobras Biocombustível was announced in July last year and is currently in the binding phase of the sale of the biofuel plants. The subsidiary was founded in 2008 and is one of the largest biodiesel producers in Brazil, with over 150 workers, including operation technicians, chemists, engineers, doctors, and lawyers.
The Privatization Of Petrobras’ Subsidiary
As mentioned earlier, the privatization of PBio was announced in July 2020 and is in the binding phase of the sale of the plants. At the time, Petrobras informed the market that PBio is one of the largest biodiesel producers in the country, with a 5.5% market share in 2019, and that it would see significant growth of 25% in the biodiesel blending mandate over the next three years, benefiting from entry and expansion in the third largest biodiesel market in the world, citing its strategic location with privileged access to the Brazilian markets in the Southeast and Northeast regions.
In 2016, when the then management of Pedro Parente announced the closure of the Quixadá plant in the state of Ceará, the Unique Federation of Oil Workers and Sindipetro-CE/PI reported the impacts that the measure would have on nine thousand families of small farmers in the semi-arid region who supplied the unit with oilseeds.
The workers’ resistance prevented the closure of the plant; however, the management of Petrobras moved forward with dismantling the sector and put the unit in hibernation in 2017. Today, only the plants in Montes Claros and Candeias remain active.
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