União Geral dos Trabalhadores – UGT
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Enough of paying the bill! Compulsory
minimum age for retirement? No - I can guarantee
that we, from UGT, are against any proposal that penalize workers by adopting
rules for retirement, either by minimum age (as the government wants in
2016), through the infamous social security factor (of 1999), or by the
formula 85/95 (which is under study). Each time the tax adjustment or social
security reform is discussed, workers tremble, since they know they will be
caught in the middle.
Correctness in the adjustment policy of
the minimum wage - Government gets it right in keeping
the policy of minimum wage adjustment. The impact on economy will be
positive, will provide an increase in production, in consumption and in the
restore of growth. The most important thing, however, will be the opening of
new job positions in the formal market. Ricardo Patah, national president of
UGT
New minimum wage will inject R$ 57
billion in economy, says Dieese - The rise of the
minimum wage from R$ 788.00 to R$ 880.00 should inject R$ 57 billion in
income next year. 48.3 million people have their income related to the
minimum wage, according to a study of Dieese published on December 29.
Public Notice CNPL: Insisting on the
mistake - The government repeats, at the end of
2015, the same serious mistakes it made at the end of 2014: announcing
economic measures and actions of wide impact on the social tissue, profoundly
harmful to working classes, without at least consulting or establishing any
attempt of dialogue with institutions that represent workers or the organized
civil society. Carlos Alberto Schmitt de Azevedo, President of CNPL –
National Confederation of Liberal Professions
Increasing exclusion does not develop a
nation - And, once again, on the eve of
Christmas, measures that only lead to a New Year’s filled with sadness and
uncertainties for workers and their families were announced. Again, the
government Dilma misses the target and the form. It knocks down dialogue with
trade union centers. Ricardo Patah, president of UGT
23rd Plenary Session of UGT’s
National Board of Executives - On December 17,
UGT held, at the Novotel Jaraguá Hotel, in São Paulo, its 23rd
Plenary Session of the National Board of Executives and gathered directors
from the 26 Brazilian State branches and from the Federal District.
Promotion of Decent Work - On December 17, the 1st Conference on Decent Work and
International Cooperation of UGT came to an end. It was held by UGT’s
Observatory on Decent Work and Department of Issues Related to Anti-unionist
Practices and Labor Relationships, as part of the national and international
project Decent Work, Decent Life.
SINDIAPI-UGT prepares course on social
security - UGT’s Trade Union of Retired Workers,
Pensioners and Elderly People (SINDIAPI) will organize, after 2016, a series
of courses towards the preparation of advisors in the area of social
security.
Marcos Afonso Oliveira
UGT
Publicizing and Communications Secretary
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