The union of oil tankers operating in Vaca Muerta and other important fields in the country, a bonus of 100,000 pesos was agreed which will be paid in two installments of 50 thousand pesos in December and February.

Furthermore, the payment of the agreed salary increase will be anticipated in the middle of the year e it will increase the value of food to 65,000 pesos (“Complementary non-remunerative canteen allowance”).

The union of private oil workers of Río Negro, Neuquén and La Pampa has defined these advantages with the chambers of the sector. The increase originally planned for March and April will be canceled in January 2023. The paritarias, in turn, will resume next February.

With this agreement, sealed in Buenos Aires, the oil tankers get a 100% salary update As for inflation, they indicate from the union.

This increases what was agreed last July: 21% in two installments; 10% with the assets of August and 11% with those of September 2022.

The bonus of 100 thousand pesos “is agreed for the only time as compensation for the burden of income tax on workers ”, indicates the minutes signed by the parties.

In this context, it was also agreed to advance 18.5% in January, which is part of the increase signed in July 2022. While complementary food aid has gone from 32,000 to 65,000 pesos.

“We ended a year claiming our oil comrades and their salaries. We were coming from very difficult times, “she said. Marcelo Ruccireferent of the Neuquén union to the local media.

“We are very happy because we are recovering a lot from what we had to lose. It’s something historical and it makes us happy, “she continued.

The agreement covers some of them 45 thousand workers distributed mainly in Patagonia and with a strong presence in the Vaca Muerta field, one of the most important for its gas and oil reserves.

The July parity had already ensured that no worker received less than 200,000 pesos a month in 2022.

“With what we have done we have achieved our goal with the solidarity bonus of 100 thousand pesos; that the income tax is shifted; the minimum non-taxable quota for workers and that the agreed wage increase for March and April be brought forward to January, “said Jorge Avila, general secretary of the Chubut Private Oil and Gas Union.

“We will be obliged to resolve the parity in February. The total of what has been increased was presented in parity with what we are closing and if we look at it from March to March it is 100%, “he added.