Oil workers strike and occupy in Colombia
On 21 May workers involved in construction operations in BP’s Tauramena installation entered into occupation demanding: • a wage increase; the establishment a wage scale; • due process in disciplinary decisions; • labour guarantees for the workers. On 2 June army forces entered the plant. At time of writing they are harassing the workers, who stay overnight chaining themselves to plant equipment so that they cannot be dislodged. Since BP began oil exploration and production in Casanare, Colombia in the early 1990s, six thousand people have been assassinated and three thousand people...