Rate Hikes: From outrage to mobilization for energy sovereignty
By José Rigane Rate hikes of 55% in electricity and 35% in gas bills must not come as a suprise. The government itself, and companies too, had earlier announced the price hike schedule. What must sure be shocking and must make us go out and figh... Read more
By José Rigane On December 13 Argentina celebrates its National Oil Day. We emphasize on the word “national”, because there resides the key to understand and celebrate this historic date. On 12/13/1907 the first well of Argentine crude oil was d... Read more
Julio Acosta, General Secretary of Luz y Fuerza La Pampa and of the province’s CTA Autónoma, analyzed in interview with Informativo FeTERA (148) the wage dispute in local cooperatives. Acosta said that they had achieved “a wage adjustment from 1... Read more
By José Rigane* November 30, 2018 As the G20 summit is underway in Buenos Aires, me and my comrades are in Mar del Plata in full battle against labor precarization at the privatized company Edea SA. We always fight for better living conditions a... Read more
“Despite being a state-owned company, YPF behaves like the worst of multinationals”
Hugo Palamidessi, president of MORENO (Movimiento por la Recuperación de la Energía Nacional Orientadora), analyzed in another Informativo FeTERA news program (Nº 146), the current state of energy affairs and domestic costs of fuels, oil and oth... Read more
ATEM (Asociación de Trabajadores de Energía Móvil – FeTERA) is currently discussing the incomes at the new biogas plants (generation of renewable energy) that the firm Secco SA owns in the towns of González Catán and Ensenada, in the provi... Read more
The Uruguayan comrades from the UAOEGAS union who went on a hunger strike for almost a month have signed an agreement with the country’s executive power and the MontevideoGAS company (Petrobras). After an extensive conflict, there was finally an... Read more
“Vaca Muerta oil spill equivalent to 10 soccer fields”: Ramón Gómez Medero
On Friday, October 23 there was an incident in the Bandurria Sur area in the Neuquén Basin, an area operated by YPF (with the oil services of the US company Schlumberger), where 85,000 m2 of unconventional oil were spilled (with a direct impact... Read more
Agustín Arbor, General Secretary of the Asociación de Profesionales de la Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica y Nuclear (APCNEAN), analyzed in an interview with Informativo FeTERA (N.º 143) the current status of collective bargaining agreements... Read more
This Friday, October 26, there will be a protest all across the country in the form of a “ruidazo” in rejection of the increases in the prices of public services. This demonstration is convened by the Red Nacional de Multisectoriales de la Argen... Read more