Mexico City.-After a year of operations, the program Federal Government Welfare Gas has received 648 thousand tanks and it has only rehabilitated 8.5 percent of cylinders delivered by residents of Iztapalapa.
The remaining 91.5 percent has not even been reviewed to determine if it can be fixed or should be scrapped and remain accumulated in a “cemetery”, on Pemex land in Tula, Hidalgo, after being removed from CDMX due to gas odor complaints. of the residents of the Mayor’s Office Miguel Hidalgo.
Due to this, the ambitious program presented by the Government of the President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, that sought to extend it to eight states, does not advance, and until now it concentrates its operations only in 7 of 16 City Halls of the Capital.
In addition, its operators work in precarious conditions and without the protection of the National Guard with which the project started, after threats of aggression from other distributors.
Interviewed by REFORMA, workers from Wellness Gas They said that they work with uncertainty about the extension of their contracts and are still waiting for the fulfillment of promises such as sales commissions, uniforms, salary increases and safety in their work routes.
In August 2021, when the distribution began, the director of Pemex, Octavio Romero Oropeza, said during a morning conference at the National Palace that although Iztapalapa was the initial objective, they would cover the 16 municipalities and then the eight states that the gas pipeline runs through. Chiapas to Jalisco.
“It hasn’t been possible,” said an employee at the Gas Bienestar plant on Calle de Añil, “nobody tells us anything about how the company is doing, well, by telling them that we don’t even know our boss.”
The gas cylinders from Tula, Hidalgo, arrive at that headquarters to be distributed in the city.
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“For now, receiving new tanks (to rehabilitate them or scrap them and change them for new ones) is suspended until further notice,” revealed another worker at the Añil plant.
“The chalanes earn very little, 1,170 pesos a week; we as operators earn 2,200 pesos a week,” warned another employee.
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