Colombia oil sector prepares for national strike
Colombia’s oil industry is preparing a national strike on March 19 after oil workers union...
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Colombia’s oil workers’ union says to hold indefinite strike
Colombia’s main oil workers’ union, the USO, will hold an indefinite strike, its...
Colombia oil workers union victim of ‘series of threats’ and attacks
Colombia’s oil workers union said Tuesday that just this month two of its leaders have been...
Cartagena oil refinery strike ends after wage agreement
A union-led work stoppage at one of Colombia’s largest oil refineries, located in the...
Strike freezes expansion of Colombia’s oil refining capability
One of the principle projects behind Colombia’s push for greater energy independence was put on hold Friday, when more than 10,000 construction workers at the Cartagena Oil Refinery (REFICAR) launched an indefinite labor...
Canada’s Pacific Rubiales ‘abuses Colombian workers’ rights’
Pacific Rubiales, the largest foreign oil company in Colombia, created their own in-house labor union in attempts to cut the legs out from under the USO, Colombia’s national oil workers union, said the union’s...
Unionists representing Pacific Rubiales workers report paramilitary death threats
The president of Colombian oil union USO, which has been striking over pay and conditions at Canadian-owned oil company Pacific Rubiales, said members have received death threats from paramilitaries. In an exclusive interview...
4,000 Colombian oil workers on strike after negotiations fail
Approximately 4,000 employees of Colombia’s Pacific Rubiales oil company went on strike Monday after labor and wage negotiations failed. “Negotiations between Pacific Rubiales Energy and the USO (Sindical Obreras...
Oil worker protests could resume if talks fail: Union
Colmbian oil workers union USO have warned that Canadian oil company Pacific Rubiales could see a repeat of last September’s protests that brought production grinding to a halt if the company pull out of negotiations with...
Curfew imposed as oil worker protests shut down production
Authorities have imposed a curfew in a central Colombian municipality in an attempt to regain control of oil worker protests that have forced Pacific Rubiales to shut down production. The indefinite curfew was announced...
Violence escalates in Colombia oil worker protests
Escalating violence in central Colombia has left several police and workers injured as protests against oil company Pacific Rubiales spiral out of control. The president of the oil workers union USO, Rodolfo Vecino, told...
Protesters blockade oil route
Nearly a thousand people blocked the road linking the town of Puerto Gaitan in the department of Meta to the region’s center of oil production in protest against Canadian oil company Pacific Rubiales on Friday. The president of...
