New union proposes idea of turning Pemex workers into corporate partners
Among the plans of the recently recognized National Union of State Productive Companies, Petroleos Mexicanos, Subsidiaries and Affiliates (SNEPE-PM-SF) is the possibility of Pemex's rank and file workers becoming corporate partners in the development of eight productive projects that the union has already presented to federal authorities.
SNEPE, founded on September 5, 2014 in the context of the 2013-2014 Energy Reform, received on July 31, 2023 the formal recognition, with registration and acknowledgment, by the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS).
“We want the workers to have possible alternatives to become partners of the company so that they have affection for what they are giving to the Empresa Productiva del Estado,” commented Eliel Flores Ángeles, secretary general of the union.
In an exclusive interview for Energía a Debate, Flores Ángeles, a law graduate with more than 30 years of experience in Pemex, explained that the projects would be financed from union dues, so that the profits generated would be distributed among the workers, under a scheme called “joint corporate partnership”.
“If we take money from their union dues for the projects, they [the workers] also have the right to receive a share of the profits they produce. We cannot straighten out a company if we do not straighten out the workers first,” affirmed the leader, who declared himself in favor of union democracy.
For the moment, he said, the proposal of the eight projects requires a previous agreement with the General Direction of Pemex, headed by Octavio Romero Oropeza, but he pointed out that the President of the Republic, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is already aware of them.
New union proposes idea of turning Pemex workers into corporate partners
