Unit and political agenda gives the tonus of conference

Organized by Força Sindical, CUT, CTB, Nova Central and CGTB, the Working Class National Conference has the objective to debate and approve document named “Working Class Agenda”, which points for the creation of a “national program of development with sovereign and work valorization.

João Carlos Gonçalves,

Juruna, General-Secretary
of Força Sindical

According to the general-secretary of Força Sindical, João Carlos Gonçalves, Juruna, the document won’t support any candidate to President of Republic (man or woman). But it will be delivered afterwards to the candidates.

No interruption
The contends suggests that the project of development of the last years can’t be interrupted. On the contrary, it has to be deepened in a way to promote the overcome of the “inequalites social and economic, income distribution and the built of a country solidary, brotherhood and fair.

“We have to valorizate work and income distribution at the country”, admits Juruna, highlighting that the trade union movement has to have the main role at the 2010 elections, be cause the election campaign will be marked by the dispute of at least two political and development projects.

Unit of the centrals
“It’s important to highlight that the centrals are going to be united for the conference in what it is about the great banners of the trade union movement”, insists the general-secretary.

The six main topics that will be voted by the plenary of the conference are growth with income distribution, valorization of decent work, state as development factor valorization of the democratic process, international sovereign and integration and trade union rights and collective negotiation.

Work valorization
With the economical growth of the last years, by the valorization of the internal market, there were a get better at income distribution and work and life conditions of the people. “But we still have millions of miserable at the country, who are out of the job market, education and health”, highlights the president of Força-RS, Cláudio Guimarães da Silva, Janta.

For the overcome of these problems, the trade union centrals announce that will demand from the next president (man or woman) initiatives which promote the growth of economy volved to the enlargement of the internal market to generate job and promote income distribution. “Besides, the country has to invest in social politics, as health, education and popular habitation”, adds the president of the Central-AM, Vicente Filizola.

40 hours workolad
Maria de Fátima Coelho, president of the Central-Amapá, is sure to highlight that workers have to keep the pressure to achieve the 40 hours workload, without salary reduction, the right of strike and the approvation of the project of the minimum salary recuperation, among other claims.

“We re-affirmate the main role of workers and the trade union movement, reason by which we want to influence at the elections process and at the elaboration of a project of development for the country”, declares Melquíades de Araújo, president of the Workers at Food Industry Federation of the State of São Paulo.

Paulo Pereira da Silva, Paulinho, President of Força Sindical

It’s only missing Lula to sign the retired 7 ,71%

At the example of the House of the Representatives, the Senate have confirmed the readjust of 7,71% to the retired who earn a value above the minimum salary. The decision have put the parliamentarians in sinthony with the desires of Brazilian society who wants and aproves this raise for all workers who dedicated a great parcel of their lifes to the construction of Brazil.

It’s been a great victory of the retired and of all Brazilian workers. The people and the parliamentarians knows that the increase in the value of the retireds stimulates consumption and, consequently, production, job and income, creating a virtuous circle that may be able to make the country grow in a sustainable way and to dratically reduce the levels of misery.

Now us, from Força Sindical, will meet the other centrals in the next days and ask for an audience with president Lula, in which we will solicitate that he to be sensitive and approves the readjust proposed the parliamentarian emend of mine, calculated with basis in 80% of the PIB plus inflation of the period of 12 months.

It’s still important to highlight that this increase will benefit 8,35 million people, injeting, in 2010, 6,7 billions in Brazilian economy. With my emend the real raise comes to 4,12%.

The trade union movement is convinced that the readjust of the retires and the end of the social security factor won’t cause a big fiscal impact if they were compared with financial speculation and in the cuts of taxes made by the government to face the economic crisis in 2009, which sumed 20 billions Reais.

Neuza Barbosa de Lima, Secretary of Politics of Job and Professional Qualification of Força Sindical

It’s necessary another national qualification program

Growth of PIB reaches 9,3% in March
Data of Serasa Experian Indicator of Economic Activity (Monthly PIB) says that the economic growth verified in March was 9,3% in relation to the same month of last year, which corresponds to the biggest annual rate of expansion of economic activity since April, 1995, when the annual rate of growth reached 10,4%. It’s that in the initial months of 1995, the Brazilian economy was living a period of super-warmth because of the real income gains got by the consomers with the end of the procces of hiper-inflation and with the valorizated exchange.

But rate may fall at the second trimester
The monthly growth observed in March of 2010 was 1,8% in relation to the imediately former month (February), don’t considering the season factors. With this, the variation of the trimestral PIB (stimated) finished in March of this year was 2,8% in relation to the former trimester (Oct-Nov-Dec, 2009), signalizing that Brazilian economy have growth in a annual rythim of 11,7% in the first trimester of 2010. According to Serasa Experian analisys, such rythim may reduce from the second trimester of 2010, because of the taken out of the fiscal stimulus to the bought of vehicles and other durable goods, among others.

Only 10% of the housemaids have FGTS           
With basis in PNAD numbers, from IBGE, the government bank Caixa Econômica Federal affirmed that 78 thousand housemaids are inscripted at FGTS in a universe of 1,774 million workers with signed card. This way, the number of housemaids with FGTS represents only 4% of the total of workers with signed card. Ten years ago, the housemaid got the right to have Guarantee Fund by Time of Work (FGTS). However, as this is optional, by critery of the employer, few still have access to the benefit.