Buses resume service in Greater Recife.
Bus drivers and conductors in the Recife Metropolitan Region have begun to resume their activities; according to the Grande Recife Transport Consortium, approximately 40% of the fleet is circulating on the streets. Despite returning to work after the Superior Labor Court (TST) suspended the 10% salary increase, the group is meeting again to decide the future course of action for their mobilization.
Pernambuco 247 – Bus drivers and conductors in the Recife Metropolitan Region began to resume activities on Monday morning (25). According to the Grande Recife Transport Consortium, around 40% of the fleet is circulating on the streets.
Despite returning to work after the Superior Labor Court (TST) suspended the 10% salary increase, the group will meet again later today, at 14 pm, in Praça Oswaldo Cruz, Boa Vista, in the central region of Recife, to decide the course of action for their mobilization.
After a long struggle with employers, bus drivers finally won a salary increase in court at the end of July. With the ruling, wages would rise from R$ 1.765 for drivers and R$ 861,63 for fare collectors. Inspectors, who currently earn R$ 1.037, would start earning R$ 1.140.
However, the increase was revoked last Thursday (21), after the Minister of the Superior Labor Court (TST) Barros Levenhagen accepted an injunction from the Union of Passenger Transport Companies of the State of Pernambuco (Urbana-PE). The court understood that the readjustment exceeded the limits of the normative power of the Labor Court.