Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores Petroleros de la República Mexicana

The Sindicato de Trabajadores Petroleros de la República Mexicana (STPRM) is a trade union of oil workers in Mexico. It is the union for workers at the Mexican, state run, oil company Pemex.^[1] The union signed its first collective bargaining agreement with Pemex in 1942.^[2] In 2001, it was discovered that funds from the union were being illegally diverted to the campaign of Francisco Labastida by the union chief Carlos Romero Deschamps in a scandal known as Pemexgate.^[1] Eleven other officials, including the union treasurer, then senator Ricardo Aldana, were implicated in the crime.^[1] The union worked on obtaining a refund of diverted funds in late 2003.^[3]

References

1. O'Boyle, Michael (1 November 2003). "On the run; haughty evasion of justice by central Pemexgate figure Deschamps exposes problems with Mexican legal system.". Business Mexico via The Free Library. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
2. "Historia de Pemex" (in Spanish). Petróleos Mexicanos. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
3. Torres, Alejandro (14 September 2003). "Seguirá procesa contra implicados en 'Pemexgate', advierte Macedo". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2012.