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Mexico's state owned oil and gas company Pemex said Thursday it is still running various operations despite a federal government call to suspend all non essential economic activities to avoid [...]

Mexican state oil company Pemex is considering several bold reforms that include the sale of company shares and adopting rules that would make it easier to fire employees. In an [...]

Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex plans to implement 'severe cuts' in the workforce over the coming months. Most of the lay-offs will affect white-collar, non-unionised workers. There is no indication [...]

Deal to Avert Mexican Oil Workers' Strike No Help to Energy Reform Mexican President Vicente Fox gets high marks for an oil union wage settlement with state oil company Pemex [...]

Fox Accuses Union of Blackmail Mexican President Vicente Fox toughened the rhetoric surrounding the threat of an Oct. 2 oil workers' strike at state oil company Pemex by accusing the [...]

With Strike Days Away, Fears Fuel Mexican Settlement Attempts As the cost of an oil workers' strike begins to hit home, the Mexican government, the opposition political parties, and the [...]

Pemex Avoids Labor Strike Mexican state oil company Pemex said it had reached a contract agreement with the Mexican Oil Workers Union or STPRM, and will thus avoid a strike. [...]

Pemex Cuts 2,000 Jobs Mexico's cash-strapped state oil monopoly Pemex said Wednesday it will slim down its labor force by some 2,000 workers this year, taking a knife to the [...]

Pemex Ready to Evacuate Workers Mexican state oil company Pemex said Monday it was prepared to evacuate some 8,000 workers from platforms, ships, and other marine installations in the southern [...]

Pemex May Consider Layoffs Mexican state oil company Pemex has not ruled out laying off employees as it pushes to improve efficiency, though such a move now would be premature, [...]

A new decree from the Mexican government eliminating siestas from the workday will not change schedules at state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), where most workers already have a relatively short one-and-a- [...]

Oil workers at Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) have reached a wage deal with the government of Mexico. The deal will put to an end any chance for a strike at the state-owned firm. The agreement is for a wage hike of 5.5%.

The article discusses the very little progress that has taken place in implementation of reforms approved for Mexico's energy sector, which were approved in October 2008. The new law that governs Pemex is being delayed mainly due to political turmoil and a questionable board, but the only way that reform can occur in Pemex is by the appointment of a new board.

Mexico's state-owned Pemex is clamping down on a non-official grouping of white-collar workers who oppose the government's policy of seeking private-sector investment through multiple services contracts (MSCs). Pemex has fired [...]

Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico's state oil company, has a dismally low productivity record but is still planning to become a world-class oil company. The firm's workers are averaging a relative industry low of only 88.5 barrels/day of crude or crude-equivalent.

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's state oil monopoly has laid off about 500 workers in the first week of the new year, and union leaders said in published comments that they [...]

Falling Prices Strain Relations Between Mexican Oil Company, Workers Union MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's state-owned oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, Pemex, and the powerful oil workers' union are loced in what [...]