Petrobras workers announce strike starting Monday
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FILE PHOTO: The logo of Brazil's state-run Petrobras oil company is seen at its headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 16, 2019. REUTERS/Sergio Moraes/File Photo
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Workers at Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras will kick off a strike on Monday, their union said in a statement on Wednesday.
The move comes as workers deemed the company's second counteroffer for a labor agreement "insufficient," according to the statement released by the FUP union.
Petrobras and its workers have been in an ongoing dispute over a deficit in the retirement fund and a push for changes to the employee compensation structure.
Petrobras said negotiations are ongoing and that in case of a strike it will adopt contingency measures to keep operations running.
In May, FUP announced a two-day strike, only to call it off a day before it was set to start after Petrobras sent a proposal to settle a dispute over pay and working conditions.
(Reporting by Marta Nogueira and Rodrigo Viga Gaier; Writing by Isabel Teles and Fabio Teixeira; Editing by Gabriel Araujo, Kylie Madry and Leslie Adler)
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