In a letter to oil workers, FUP exposes Pedro Parente.
In a letter sent this Thursday, the 7th, to Petrobras System workers, the Unified Federation of Oil Workers (FUP) once again questioned the company's interim president, Pedro Parente. According to the organization, Parente sent a new message to oil workers on Monday, the 5th, attempting to appear well-intentioned, and on the same day announced the sale of oil fields in Ceará and Sergipe. "To try to 'gain' the credibility of some employees, he continues to use corruption as a pretext to dismantle Petrobras, privatize the company's management, cut rights, and turn the category's main achievements to dust. He calls this 'redefining our vision of the future'," says the FUP; read the full text.
247 - In a letter sent this Thursday, the 7th, to workers in the Petrobras System, the Unified Federation of Oil Workers (FUP) once again questioned the company's interim president, Pedro Parente.
According to the organization, Parante sent a new message to oil workers on Monday, the 5th, attempting to appear well-intentioned, and on the same day announced the sale of oil fields in Ceará and Sergipe.
Read the full document:
Letter to Oil Workers
Pedro Parente's cynicism knows no bounds. In yet another letter to the workers, he again attempts to garner support and collaboration for his project to dismantle Petrobras. The tactic is divide and conquer, as Machiavelli so aptly taught.
On Monday the 05th, during visits to Ceará and Sergipe, he announced that he would be open to frank conversations with the workers, but revealed nothing about the announcement that Petrobras would make on the same day, when it put nine offshore production fields in those states up for sale.
While the interim president was marketing his services to a select group of oil workers, the company was announcing measures that will disrupt the lives of hundreds of workers' families who will lose their jobs.
Pedro Parente lies
As we denounced, the creation of the Directorate of Strategy, Organization and Management System, approved by the Board of Directors on June 29, was specifically commissioned to house Nelson Silva, who, as Pedro Parente admits, will be "a central figure in the process of change," that is, the dismantling of Petrobras.
In a statement released to the press on July 01st, the company admitted that the interim president's protégé will occupy the new director position, proving that he lied when he stated that there would be no political appointments at Petrobras.
In his letter to the workers, Pedro Parente acknowledges the blow and tries once again to explain himself to the group. He claims that he is not a politician and that he has never been involved in party politics, when it is public knowledge that he played a strategic role in the PSDB governments and had close relationships with the party's leaders.
His mission at Petrobras is political.
It is because of these credentials that he was placed by an illegitimate government in the presidency of Petrobras, precisely at the moment when José Serra's (PSDB) proposal to remove the company from the operation of the Pre-Salt is one step away from being approved in the National Congress.
It was no coincidence that Pedro Parente immediately announced his support for the project and handpicked Nelson Silva to execute the privatization of the company with great haste, as he did with Vale and Comgás. It is also no coincidence that Pedro Parente also holds the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of BM&F Bovespa.
Pedro Parente is a political appointment!
Nelson Silva is a political appointment!
Moralization is an excuse to privatize Petrobras.
In an attempt to "gain" the credibility of some employees, he continues to use corruption as a pretext to dismantle Petrobras, privatize the company's management, cut rights, and reduce the category's main achievements to dust. He calls this "redefining our vision of the future."
We know that the main difficulties Petrobras faces are a consequence of the international crisis in the sector and that corruption is a practice of the corporate world that needs to be eradicated from our company, but it is not limited to state-owned companies, as Pedro Parente tries to make us believe. There is the recent example of Volkswagen, involved in a giant scheme of fraud in emissions tests, which cost the company US$15 billion in fines. Vale, responsible for the biggest environmental crime in the country, was also indicted by the Federal Police for falsifying data on the volume of mud it dumped into the dam that collapsed.
Workers have never been and will never be complicit in corruption. We will not allow Pedro Parente and his cronies to use the false banner of moralizing Petrobras to do what they failed to do during Fernando Henrique's government: privatize the company and, as a bonus, hand over the pre-salt reserves to multinationals.
Rio de Janeiro, July 07 of 2016
Single Federation of Oil Workers