The new deal with the Petroleum Industry’s Workers Union (USO) lasts through 2022. Workers will receive a raise of the inflation rate plus 1.21% in 2018 and inflation plus 1.7% in the next four years.
USO said this week that it had presented a proposal to Ecoptrol that included a request for higher salary and improved benefits for some 35,000 direct and contracted workers.
Colombia’s largest company, state controlled Ecopetrol released video showing the unauthorized entry of USO (Union Sindical Obrera de la Industria del Petrolero) activists last Tuesday at the oil producer’s Pozos Colorados facility, on the Atlantic coast, south of...