The negotiating commissions of Ecopetrol and the Union Sindical Obrera (USO) managed to sign a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CCT) that allows more benefits to be provided to oil company employees.
This negotiation, which was carried out based on the 98-page document filed by the USO and contains 101 petitions; of which 20 are new and 81 refer to existing articles.
The convention achieved is valid for four years from January 1, 2023, until December 31, 2026. The previous CCT was designed in 2018 and, which lost its validity on December 31, cost 180,000 million pesos. . besides, in 2022, Ecopetrol’s labor costs represented 1.4 percent (2.2 trillion pesos) of its income.
At the point of the salary increase for this year, the USO requested that it be 25.12 percent and remain at 14.62 percent.
Regarding the inclusion of workers who were temporary workers, the direct contracting of 600 people was preferred and 200 temporary workers TOV went to an indefinite contract.
The document stipulated a daily premium of 75,960 for outsourced workers who are in production fields. But on this there was no decision.
The provision of resources for joint social investment projects and for energy transition forums will also be achieved.
They will be 21,000 million to the oil communities and 8,000 million for socioeconomic transition projects.
The president of Ecopetrol, Ricardo Roa with the president of the USO, César Loza.
The new Collective Labor Agreement also reached agreements with the union organizations Asintrahc, Asopetrogas, Asteco, Sintramen,
SUP and Utipec.
Requests such as reducing working hours from 45 to 38 weekly hours, the night surcharge (between 6:00 pm and 6:00 am), the 60 percent increase in the value of daytime work and 200 percent were left out. percent on the Sunday surcharge.
In the same way, the annual bonus for Ecopetrol’s profits is excluded. equivalent to five average salaries earned by each worker, the high-risk semi-annual bonus of 4.6 million pesos.
The proposals for the provision of hospitals at the service of Ecopetrol employees and the purchase of ambulances, the free investment loans for up to 23.2 million pesos without interest, payable in 96 fortnightly installments, and the housing loans of up to 580 million pesos. pesos, were also left out.
The cost of language courses for pensioners was not added either.workers and their children, in addition to education plans for spouses, children (up to 27 years of age), parents and pensioners, the 18 million pesos of maintenance and lodging each year for secondary school students in the country and 32 million pesos if they are abroad, nor the undergraduate scholarships for spouses (125) of employees and postgraduate scholarships for workers (420) and for children and pensioners (225).
The same did not include the proposal that the company assume the laundry service of the workers’ work clothes in all production fields, nor to grant USO executives 6 round-trip air tickets and 18 days of per diem per month neither is it to increase its vehicle fleet by 10 vehicles for the validity of the CCT.
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