Petronor

It's been a month and six days since the current CEO of Repsol , Josu Jon Imaz, entered the White House with representatives of other oil companies to relaunch the Venezuelan oil industry , the first Caribbean oil tanker since Trump took control of that industry has arrived in the last few hours in Bilbao.

The facility will produce synthetic fuels such as diesel, SAF and nafta, the main component of petrol, with a production capacity of 2,000 tons per year, which can be used in trucks, ships or aircraft.

Dagoeneko hasi dituzte 100 megawatteko (MW) eskala handiko bigarren elektrolizagailu bat eraikitzeko lanak Petronorreko findegian, Muskizen (Bizkaia). Aurreikuspenen arabera, 2029an jarriko dute martxan, eta hasierako inbertsioa 300 milioi euro ingurukoa izango da.

In the fall of 2025 there was an 83 day strike when workers changed their locker room to report that the change involved an extension of the working day of 15-30 minutes. The courts proved them right.

The company has announced that it will appeal the court's decision.

The unions have called off the indefinite strike, in agreement with the management, after 83 days of unemployment.

However, the Department of Health has warned that these are levels considered safe for public health. The spill occurred on Friday and since then the company has been implementing strict safety measures to resolve the situation as quickly as possible.

This has been reported by representatives of the committee during the staff concentration convened by Kutxabank in front of its general offices in Bilbao. The workers have rejected the agreement and the case will be resolved in the courts.

Eighty percent of the workers voted against the pact reached between management and the union majority, so the so-called "locker room war" will be decided in court. Petronor has been standing still for a month and a half.

The pre-agreement includes, among other things, "15 minutes of compensation." If that meeting has not been held before Monday, without the pre-agreement being voted on, the judge will finally decide.

The Bilbao Social Court is today holding the trial for the complaint filed by the Petronor trade unions against the company for a "substantial" change in working conditions, which has resulted in an indefinite strike. "The working day of the shift staff has been increased secretly (30 minutes more per day worked) as a result of the transfer of the locker room building," the unions denounce.

They have reported that Petronor's management "refuses" to provide the strike committee with the information it is obliged to provide so that they do not monitor and verify "everything it does not comply with" in accordance with the regulations.

The unions that make up the works council (UGT, CCOO, TU and ELA) were also unanimous in support of the strike, which will begin at 6 p.m. this Thursday.

The project, which began construction in 2024, will become the first industrial plant in mainland Europe to manufacture synthetic arid, which captures CO2 both during the production process and during its useful life. 

Staff representatives have stated that the agreements reached with the management have not been complied with and have stressed that the state of the facilities at the Muskiz refinery is "regrettable".