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The Single Federation of Oil Workers (FUP) and its Petrobras employee unions approved a strike at the beginning of business next Friday, in protest against the sale of the company's assets, according to a statement sent this Monday.
The FUP and its unions also approved, last Friday, a calendar of meetings to evaluate a possible strike by the category.
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The movement comes after the company's executive board, still largely made up of directors elected in the previous administration, decided after preliminary analyzes to resume the process of transferring assets that had sales contracts signed.
Petrobras has pending signed transactions worth more than 2 billion dollars.
The analyzes were carried out following a request from the Ministry of Mines and Energy at the beginning of the month for a suspension of asset sales for 90 days, due to the reevaluation of the National Energy Policy, which generated insecurity among market agents.
The processes in which there were no final contracts signed will continue to be evaluated by the oil company.
In a statement, FUP's general coordinator, Deyvid Bacelar, said that the board's “quick” deliberation goes against what was defended in the campaign by the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
“It is unacceptable for professionals aligned with the previous government to continue to be embedded in the management of the company, making it unviable and boycotting the government program that was approved at the polls,” said Bacelar in the note
After the beginning of President Lula's government, only the president of the state oil company was changed at the company's top management.
When contacted, Petrobras did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Generally, the company places contingency teams to work in operations, avoiding a more pronounced impact on production when the stoppage is not extensive.
Currently, names nominated to the board and council of the state-owned company by the Union and the new president, Jean Paul Prates, undergo internal integrity and eligibility tests.
In the case of the board, appointed by the Union, the expectation is that the new names can be approved at a shareholders' meeting at the end of April. But the government has already made two changes to the list of nominees, in addition to recently suggesting new names, amid fears of vetoes in view of the rules contained in the State-Owned Companies Law.
Source: Marta Nogueira | Notícias Agrícolas
