Together with Alckmin, most likely his running mate in October, Lula criticized the labor reform promoted by then-president Michel Temer in 2017, which, among other things, created work contract modalities without the right to vacations and opened the doors to individual negotiation between workers and employers, weakening the role of trade unions.
For this reason, in an act with the main trade union centers in the central region of São Paulo, he committed to a new labor legislation, but by consensus.
“We want to call the union centrals and the president of the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo, of Febraban (Brazilian Federation of Banks). We will not leave anyone out. We do not want to deny the businessman, the banker, the merchant, the farmer the right to speak. But they have to speak at a negotiating table where the workers are represented“, he claimed.
Lula said that Temer’s reform was part of the project implemented “with the coup” against President Dilma Rousseff.
“We had a coup d’état in our country. And the Lava Jato was also part of that coup,” remarked the former president, first in the polls of voting intentions.
He insisted on the need for a broad discussion “at a negotiating table, which can be coordinated by the vice president,” in what seemed like a nod to Alckmin, nominated this week by the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) as a candidate for vice.
“We will summon everyone, because the idea has been created that the workers and trade unionists are against the growth of the companies, that the workers are responsible for the cost of Brazil,” Lula lamented.
And he questioned that from some powerful sectors “Don’t realize that if the worker wants something, it is for the company to be big, create jobs, increase wages, because everyone’s dream is to work.”
Lula, a favorite in the polls for the October 2 elections, must be officially proclaimed as a candidate in May, but he has already participated in the launching ceremony for Alckmin, with a conservative profile, as a vice candidate, who will seek to collect votes in the sectors of center-right disappointed with the current president Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for re-election.
Source: Ambito
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