Labor unions and business leaders demand job creation from Temer.

247 - Trade unions and business leaders will meet with Michel Temer at 11 am on Tuesday (12), at the Planalto Palace, to present emergency proposals for the recovery of employment in the country. Força Sindical, CSB, CTB, UGT and Nova Central will participate in the meeting.

The meeting with Temer is a result of the meeting between business leaders and labor unions on August 21st at the Fiesp headquarters in São Paulo, where short-term measures to accelerate the process of economic recovery were discussed. "We want economic growth to resume with jobs and income for everyone," says federal deputy Paulinho da Força (Solidariedade), president of Força Sindical.

Below is a statement from Força Sindical outlining their demands, signed by Paulinho.

An Agenda for Resuming Economic Development and Job Creation

The major national objective today is to pull the Brazilian economy out of the worst economic crisis in its history. GDP fell by nearly 8%, resulting in 14 million unemployed Brazilians, causing thousands of businesses to close, leaving families and companies indebted, plunging the country into a serious fiscal crisis, and causing a sharp decline in investment.

But Brazil is bigger than all of this. Yes, we will overcome the crisis and emerge stronger, as has happened so many times in the past.

We are in a hurry to resume economic development and create jobs, and that is why we, from the productive sector, have brought together representatives of workers and companies and built a set of short-term proposals to accelerate the resumption of growth, and another, more structural set, to make the process of resuming economic activity and generating jobs sustainable, a process that Brazilian society so desires.