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To: chowder who wrote (104929)	7/12/2008 4:15:38 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 206194

PBR rig workers at Campos will strike for 5 days. Cut 7,5 million barrels plus 22 million M3 of gas. The case: They work 14 days offshore on the rigs and rest for 21. The 15th day -when the helicopter comes to pick them up- they want to be paid as working day. Last year, they claim, PBR agreed to pay the 15th day, but failed to do so till now and they are threatening to strike. PBR asked them to keep at least a minimum production (they will cut 80% of the whole country's production) but roghnecks disagreed. If PBR take a crew (who break the strike) to the rigs, they will ask to leave immediately. If PBR keeps them in the rigs, (there are 42 of them) refusing to taking them to land, they will cry 'private incarceration', which carries penalty akin to kidnapping according to Brazilian law.