Productivity rate increases much more than salary

Just as a bloody bat, the businessmen of Brazilian industry have been feeding exclusively of the workers blood. According to study of the sub-section Dieese of Força Sindical, the exploration of labor rate have overpassed all the workers expectation.

In the case of the wood industry, the productivity have overpassed salaries in 37,29%, a record at the industry sector. The constatation comes from a study made by the sub-section Dieese of Força Sindical, based in IBGE data. Click here and check the numbers from January to May.

Champion segments
Of 18 analized industry segments, in 15 the productivity of the company have increased much more than the salaries, between January and May, 2010, over the same period of last year.

Only in three segments the salaries have overpassed productivity: smoke, textile and paper and graphic. “At the others, the gains of productivity (phisic person/employed people) overpass the salary gains”, highlights the economist of the sub-section of Dieese, Airton Gustavo dos Santos.

Salary increase          
The increase of productivity have also increased much more than the salaries at the basic metallurgic (34,05%), machines and equipments (33,90%) and metal products (32.82%).

The semestral data of the Work and Job Ministery (MTE), about all the economic segments, reveal that there were an increase of 4,86% at the average workers salary admited in these first six months in relation to the first six months of last year.

João Carlos Gonçalves,
Juruna, General-Secretary
of Força Sindical

Low index
“This index is insignificant if we take in consideration that in some segments there were expressive diferences between productivity gains and salary gains very superior to 4,8%”, says the general-secretary of Força Sindical, João Carlos Gonçalves, Juruna.

“There is space at the negotiations of this second semester to obtain bigger real gains and PLR with more elevated values”, says the trade union leader. “For that, we have to unite the salary campaigns at the cities and at the states”, completes Juruna.

United campaign          
According to the substitute president of Sintepav of Bahia, Irailson Warneaux de Oliveira, the salary campaign of the sector was united in 2008 and the sindicate close an agreement of 11% of salary increase this year.

“We got good increases for the basic levels of the categories because of the elevation of the region minimum salary”, explains the president of Força Sindical-SC, Osvaldo Mafra. “We can’t negotiate the professional basic level below the region minimum salary”, insists the president of Força Sindical-MT, Manoel de Souza.

Miguel Torres, Substitute President of Força Sindical

United campaign to achieve real gain and PLR

The work made by sub-section Dieese of Força Sindical shows clearly that the moment is very auspicious for workers to achieve excelents salary raises and good values of PLR at the salary campaigns of the second semester.

According to the study, the productivity rates have been increasing much more than salaries, coming to shameful 37,29% verified at the wood industry, a record at the industry sector, and to 34,05% at basic metallurgy.

However, there are objective conditions to close good collective agreements with index of real raise very superior to the obtained until now. In the same way, the values of PLR have to increase a lot. Some categories have already reached prizes around R$ 10 thousand.

To reach these objectives and to combat the labor exploration, the trade union movement has to work at the mobilization and organization of the basis, just as in the unification of the salary campaigns of workers of the same category, of different categories and together with the companions linked to the other trade union centrals.

But, if there weren’t politic conditions of unit between different entities, we’ll start the fight only with workers of Força Sindical.

Another important challenge: put clausules in the collective conventions that avoid workers rotativity, mechanisme used by bosses to decrease salaries. Last year it was dismissed 16 million people (over 17 million hires).

And we already know that these workers have lost their jobs to people which started to earn less.

Cícero Firmino da Silva, Martinha, President of the Metallurgist Trade Union of Santo André and Mauá

Transfering the
growth to our pockets

Brazil atracts qualified foreign worker...
More than 90% of the almost 180 thousand foreigners who received, at the last five years, some kind of work visa to act in Brazilian land have college degree, complete highschool or some kind of technique specialization, highlights the report “Foreign Workers and Professional Qualification”, published by the Imigration General Coordination (CGI) of the Work Ministery. The reason is that the national labor is not prepared to compete with foreigners.

... Education doens’t attend the necessities of the country
The data reveals not only the lack of specialized people to attend the current strong demand of the job market in the areas of industry, infra-structure, energy, petrol and gas. The importation of foreign workers also shows that education in the country presents difficulties to keep up with the necessities of development of the country.

Work contract recision will come by internet
The Work and Job Ministery has just presented the system homolognet, which will allow the employers to recind work contracts by internet. The system was released in experience phasis and may by obligatory from next year. Several tools will be added to allow, for example, the access of trade unions to the information by the use of digital certification. The Ministery released that with the homolognet the time between the demission of an employee and the concession of the unemployment insurance will be reduced.