Day of Struggles shuts down downtown Salvador.
Workers marched from Campo Grande to Praça Municipal, where the City Hall and the Salvador City Council are located; the march included bus drivers, teachers, construction workers, civil police officers, municipal employees, health professionals, and bank employees; traffic is complicated in the city center, and the situation is aggravated by the fact that Transalvador agents have also stopped work.
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Workers from various sectors marched from Campo Grande to Praça Municipal this afternoon. The movement, organized by the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT), is part of the National Day of Struggles and included bus drivers, teachers, construction workers, civil police officers, municipal employees, health professionals, and bank workers.
The unified banner of the protesters is for a reduction in the work week, an end to the social security factor, and a guarantee of 10% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for education and health. Separately, each category is also taking its demands to the city streets, such as state employees who are demanding payment of the URV (Unit of Real Value).
Due to the protest, traffic is complicated in the city center, and the situation is aggravated by the fact that Transalvador agents have also stopped work today in support of the movement.
Highways reopened.
The blockades made by protesters on the highways around Salvador since 5 am were dismantled at the end of the morning this Thursday (11), reported the Federal and State highway police.
Shortly before 11 a.m., BA-099, which connects the capital to the north coast, was reopened. Following that, lanes were opened on BR-324, which had two blockades (in Simões Filho and Feira de Santana), BAs 535 and 526, which connect Salvador to the Camaçari Industrial Complex in the metropolitan region, and BR-116, also in Feira de Santana.
However, protesters from the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) blocked four sections of the BR-101 highway in the south of the state.