On his first day as president of Petrobras, former senator Jean Paul Prates hosts trade union organizations this Friday afternoon, 27. According to the United Federation of Petroleum Workers (FUP), topics such as changes in the strategic plan and fuel price policy, as well as the restoration of rights workers who have been recalled in recent years.

They will be asked what the FUP classifies as “improper discounts on health insurance plans and supplementary pensions,” mostly from pensioners and pensioners, “many of whom have had their paychecks zeroed out,” according to FUP general coordinator David Bazelar.
In addition, the replacement of personnel, the holding of new open tenders in Petrobras will be decided.

The meeting will discuss proposals for new directions for Petrobras, championed by union leaders and already submitted to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and reviewed by the Mining and Energy Transition Group, which included Prates and David Bachelar.

“The reconquest of the labor and social rights of oil workers is also on the agenda of the meeting,” the FUP confirmed.

Among the proposals are amendments to the current Petrobras Strategic Plan for 2023-2027, approved by the management of the company Bolsonaris last year, and changes to the current import price parity (PPI) policy implemented by Pedro Parente in 2016, when he was president. Petrobras and supported by Bolsonaro.

PPI links the price of fuel to changes in the dollar, the price of a barrel of oil on the international market, and the cost of derivatives imports.

Immediately, the FUP defends the suspension and reversal of the privatization of the company’s divisions; completion of work in progress (such as the expansion of the Abreu e Lima (Rnest) refinery in Pernambuco or suspended works such as the petrochemical complex in Rio de Janeiro (Comperj).

FUP will also require new investment in upstream with local content and in energy transition with worker inclusion processes.

Investment in the fertilizer sector is also on the agenda of the meeting with the aim of completing the Mato Grosso do Sul plant and opening the Paraná plant. After Fup, Prates will receive the National Federation of Oil Workers (FNP).