Espíndola on fuel price: “Nobody investigates companies to know if selling prices are right”
Marcelo Espíndola, General Secretary of the Asociación Gremial y Personal de Estaciones de Servicio de Córdoba y Afines (AGTPAC) which is member of FeTERA, talked about the price of gasoline which companies say it is lagging behind by 20 to 38 p... Read more
Gendarmerie to Vaca Muerta: Macri promotes US security policy in our country
WE REPUDIATE THIS MEASURE AND CALL TO BUILD ANOTHER ENERGY MODEL By José Rigane* On Tuesday September 17, the national government published Decree 768/2019 in the Official Gazette, signed by Patricia Bullrich, which enables the deployment of the... Read more
A matter of priorities: Gov’t cancels “debt” with energy companies which is almost a Food Emergency budget
By José Rigane* The country is in the midst of the debate about poverty and hunger in Argentina and the enactment of the Food Emergency Law, which would provide an urgent palliative to the most disadvantaged sectors of this neoliberal economy. T... Read more
José Rigane, after a 40% devaluation: “We will mobilize in defense of wages”
Between Friday August 9 and today, wednesday, the Argentine peso devaluation has been of 40%. Each dollar went from costing 45,19 pesos to 63 pesos, according to the oficial price in Banco Nación. Against this background, the workers’ movement h... Read more
FeTERA Elections 2019: José Rigane and Julio Acosta get 96% of the votes
FeTERA reports that on August 15, the National Elections of our Federation of Energy Workers were held in order to elect the new board of directors that will lead the organization for the 2019-2023 period. Around 66% of the electoral roll voted... Read more
The Argentine national Energy Secretariat, led by Gustavo Lopetegui, former Deputy Chief of Cabinet of Mauricio Macri, is about to implement something that will directly harm service stations’ labor force all across the country: self-service mac... Read more
The current neoliberal model began to be harshly implemented as of 1991. Privatizations dismantled state activity in the area of public services and handed over national heritage and non-renewable strategic energy resources (hydrocarbons). In th... Read more
“Vaca Muerta a feast for private, foreign companies”: Rigane
When it comes to energy “the main goal of the current administration has been to deepen the process started in the 90s in Argentina which is the privatization of the energy system,” said José Rigane, Secretary General of FeTERA in a recent inter... Read more
By José Rigane* On June 24th we learnt that the United States Supreme Court of Justice rejected the request made by the Argentine government to mediate a suit against Argentina and YPF for the nationalization of 51% of the shares of the oil comp... Read more
FeTERA’s Open Letter: The Argentine Government continues to contravene ILO’s recommendations
In the year of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) 100th anniversary, in Argentina we still do not have freedom of association. The Argentine government does not comply with the decisions of the ILO, nor with the judiciary resolution a... Read more