They have decided to call a strike at Repsol due to the lack of an existing agreement in the negotiation of the company’s so-called Framework Agreement, which regulates the working conditions of nearly 10,000 employees.
The unions consider that “the company announces with great fanfare the great benefits obtained, such as raising the remuneration of managers and dividends to its shareholders.” For this reason, the workers’ representatives have decided to call six days of strike that will take place on July 15, 16 and 17, as well as August 13, 14 and 15. Both dates represent a particularly delicate moment due to the crossing of departure and return operations that occurs during these weekends.
For its part, the company assures that Repsol is in full negotiation of the framework agreement with the workers’ representatives and it is in this forum that the working conditions for the coming years are being debated, through a frank and open dialogue. The company, immersed in the challenge of the energy transition, with a focus on efficiency and its transformation, assures that it is firmly committed to maintaining quality employment and reiterates its willingness during the negotiation to reach an agreement.
This situation occurs just one day after the oil company has revealed that the service station business will maintain a discount of 30 cents on fuel throughout the summer. These discounts are being applied at the expense of commercial margins and have practically reduced to zero the result of the service station business in Spain in April and May -the first two full months of implementation of these support measures for customers in an exceptional international environment -, in a context, furthermore, of rising costs and maintenance of the tax burden applied to gasoline and diesel. Regarding refining margins, the company has improved its situation, according to data provided by the oil company, going from a level of 5.3 dollars per barrel in the first quarter of 2019 to 6.8 dollars per barrel of the first quarter of 2022.
If we look at the latest report issued by the CNMC, the refining margins of the products would have increased due to the impact of the war in Ukraine and would have gone from 0.05 euros/liter in 2019 to 0.25 euros/liter in April (0.19 euros in March) for diesel and from 0.03 euros/liter in 2019 to 0.14 euros/liter in April 2022. In the last decade, 24 refineries have closed in the European Union, more than 10 % of the continent’s refining capacity, mainly due to an environment of low profitability and regulatory uncertainty. On the contrary, consumption has increased by 1.3%.
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