The PRD senator Luis Sánchez Jiménez felt that with the loss of some projects from energy reform, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) will be forced to lay off 60,000 workers , which means a 40% cut staff.
The legislation also provides that the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) enlists a early retirement program .
Sanchez, one of the main architects of the PRD initiative on energy, said the cuts will take place Pemex because I shall dispense with a percentage of their workers, as several projects yield to the Private Sector.
He considered that the area will be affected in the first instance will be Pemex Gas and Basic Petrochemicals , because it is expected that Petroleos Mexicanos declare that in this area does not have the technical or financial capacity to explore.
"It is speculated that the dismissed have no place in companies investing in Mexico, this is absolutely false. In Tabasco already operating transnational corporations and they bring their staff and within that contract in Mexico offered under conditions to which they were hired, "he said.
He recalled that Pemex now has a workforce of 150.697 workers, 101,000 of whom 50,000 are unionized and are trusted or possible.
"The Pemex oil union and went ahead to energy reform and since last August, it signed an administrative agreement of association, the 10717/2013, to discuss the downsizing of the workforce will affect all areas of the parastatal " she said.
In addition, he said that the collective bargaining agreement and Pemex Union of Petroleum Workers of the Mexican Republic shall be definitely restored because changes in nature and the union loses exclusivity in some areas.
The PRD senator said that the CFE the impact will be more dramatic and lay off a large portion of the 97,000 workers, 69,000 of whom 28,000 are unionized and have any contracts or trust.
"The CFE no longer require Solid Teams National Planning group of workers who are responsible for the calculation of national energy demand," he explained, as these functions will be transferred to other bodies
PRD: Pemex will lose 40% of employees with reform
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014