Colombia. A group of around 120 industrial painters from Barrancabermeja, Santander, will integrate a process of formation of a guild as a protest against the lack of labor inclusion in the projects of the oil company Ecopetrol.
As revealed by the local newspaper Vanguardia, the painters are dissatisfied with the hiring of external personnel in some works of the Colombian firm in refineries and ports.
"We met with personnel who are currently studying the certification of industrial painters in the Seine and we are determined to formalize a guild to be able to compete in the modernization projects of the Barrancabermeja refinery that are coming," Carlos Alean Fonseca, administrative assistant of the Workers' Trade Union (USO) and industrial painter who leads the proposal, told the local newspaper.
Fonseca said they hope to bring together in the same way another 150 industrial painters who are in the oil port.
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