CUT: Temer's readjustment does not benefit the majority of public servants.
Pedro Armengol, Finance Secretary of the Confederation of Workers in the Federal Public Service (Condsef) and Deputy Secretary of Labor Relations of the CUT (Unified Workers' Central), explains that the bills for salary adjustments for public servants had already been negotiated by the government of President Dilma Rousseff; he also says that Temer's measure has no benefit for the category; "The majority did not have any compensation for inflationary losses, which were mainly affected by these five bills that affect one million public servants. This 16% increase for ministers has nothing to do with the vast majority of public servants," he stated.
Do CUT Portal - The illegitimate government of Michel Temer approved last Thursday (1st) the Bills (PLs) that bring adjustments below inflation for most Executive branch employees. However, what was not clear and was not disclosed in the mainstream press is that most of these projects were an agreement signed between employees and the government of President Dilma Rousseff, in August 2015.
The bills had been awaiting approval in the Chamber of Deputies since last year, and were only not voted on due to the worsening political crisis led by the opposition and the former president of the house, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ). This means that the bills will proceed to a vote without needing to go through the committees.
The Finance Secretary of the Confederation of Workers in the Federal Public Service (Condsef) and Deputy Secretary of Labor Relations of the CUT, Pedro Armengol, explains that, in order to please ministers and judges, the illegitimate president included this demand in the package, even though it had already been "settled" with President Dilma.
"They took this demand that had already been resolved, which was an agreement with the majority of civil servants in the Executive branch, and which the government had already submitted but which wasn't approved in the Chamber of Deputies due to the political crisis. There was no directive from President Dilma's government not to approve these projects. There was no such directive. The projects were there; the government didn't withdraw them," he states.
In general, for most of the Executive branch, the agreements foresee a 10,8% readjustment divided over two years (Aug/2016 and Jan/2017) and changes to the rule for calculating the average bonus for retirement purposes, which will be phased in over three stages between 2017 and 2019. All of these are included in the budget and are now going to the Senate, where Condsef will monitor their approval.
According to the union leader, this measure by Temer offers no benefit to the category. "The majority have not received any compensation for inflationary losses, mainly due to these five projects affecting one million civil servants. This 16% increase for ministers has nothing to do with the vast majority of civil servants."
Armengol further states that one cannot generalize and include the entire judiciary in this package. "We must note that judiciary employees, except for judges and ministers, had not received inflation adjustments for eight years. Therefore, we cannot 'crucify' them as they are doing with the judiciary employees."