Colombia oil sector prepares for national strike
Colombia’s oil industry is preparing a national strike on March 19 after oil workers union USO called for workers to suspend work for 24 hours in an attempt to curb the cutting…
Colombia’s oil industry is preparing a national strike on March 19 after oil workers union USO called for workers to suspend work for 24 hours in an attempt to curb the cutting…
Colombia’s main oil workers’ union, the USO, will hold an indefinite strike, its president told Reuters on Wednesday, in protest at widespread job cuts in the sector after a plunge…
Colombia’s oil workers union said Tuesday that just this month two of its leaders have been attacked while another 11 received death threats.
A union-led work stoppage at one of Colombia’s largest oil refineries, located in the northern city of Cartagena, has ended after a wage agreement was struck just three days after…
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…
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…
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.
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 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…