LyFMdP supports suspension of electricity price increase; demands for recovery of public energy service
The Union of Luz y Fuerza of Mar del Plata expressed its support for the measure announced by the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, of leaving “without effect” the increase in electricity planned for January 20... Read more
This Friday, December 13, National Oil Day is celebrated in Argentina. On a day like this, but from 1907, the National State found oil in the city of Comodoro Rivadavia and a sovereign deed began at that moment. Engineer Enrique Mosconi promoted... Read more
Julio Acosta: “We do not agree and we will not return to a trade union model that is part of the system”
In an interview carried out at the beginning of October, for the radio program “Rompiendo Límites”, the Secretary General of Luz y Fuerza La Pampa and Deputy Secretary of FeTERA, Julio Acosta, expressed the position of the Autonomous CTA regardi... Read more
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