Oil workers call for a 72-hour strike against the chaos created by Temer and Parente.

From the Unified Federation of Oil Workers – The Unified Federation of Oil Workers (FUP) and its affiliated unions are calling for a 72-hour national warning strike among oil workers. Workers in the Petrobras System will begin the movement at midnight on Wednesday, May 30th, to lower the prices of cooking gas and fuel, to protest the privatization of the company, and for the immediate resignation of President Pedro Parente, who, with the approval of the Michel Temer government, has plunged the country into an unprecedented crisis. 

The current policy of readjusting petroleum derivatives, which has caused fuel prices to skyrocket, is a direct reflection of the greatest dismantling of Petrobras in history. Those responsible for the chaos are Pedro Parente and Michel Temer, who intensified the crisis by calling on the armed forces to occupy the refineries. FUP emphatically repudiates this further serious attack on the Democratic Rule of Law and demands the immediate withdrawal of military troops from Petrobras facilities.

The warning strike is another step in the mobilizations that oil workers have been carrying out in the lead-up to a nationwide strike of indefinite duration, which was approved nationally by the category. The main axes of the movement are the reduction of fuel prices, the maintenance of jobs, the resumption of refinery production, the end of imports of petroleum derivatives, opposition to privatizations and the dismantling of Petrobras, and the dismissal of Pedro Parente from the presidency of the company. 

This Sunday, the 27th, oil workers will carry out further delays and work stoppages at the four refineries and fertilizer plants that are in the process of being sold: Rlam (BA), Abreu e Lima (PE), Repar (PR), Refap (RS), Araucária Nitrogenados (PR) and Fafen Bahia. 

On Monday the 28th, FUP and its unions will hold a National Day of Struggle, with public acts and mobilizations throughout the Petrobras System, denouncing the interests behind the fuel pricing policy, tailored to serve the market and importers of refined products. Pedro Parente's sell-out management is forcing Petrobras to relinquish the national refined products market to importers, who are now responsible for a quarter of all fuel sold in the country. 

The number of importers of refined products has quadrupled in the last two years, since Parente adopted international prices, burdening the Brazilian consumer to guarantee market profits. In 2017, Brazil was flooded with more than 200 million barrels of imported fuels, while refineries, by decision of the Temer government, are operating at less than 70% of their capacity. The Brazilian people will not pay the price for this dismantling.

Everyone is against the privatization of the Petrobras system. Everyone is against the increase in fuel prices. Privatization is bad for Brazil.

Out with Pedro Parente!

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