UNI warns situation in Brazil is further evidence of a neoliberal front sweeping Latin America.
The international trade union movement warns that a wave of corporate
greed will be unleashed in Brazil following the impeachment of
President Dilma Rousseff by a corruption-riddled Congress.
The all-male, all-white cabinet, headed by little-known former
Vice-president Michel Temer, had already been drawing up plans for
massive budget cuts immediately after taking the reins of power when
Dilma was suspended pending the result of the Senate impeachment
hearings. Fifteen of the initial 24 cabinet ministers, including Temer
himself, face corruption allegations or criminal charges. Whilst in
office, Dilma refused to hobble ongoing corruption investigations,
including into members of her own political party.
UNI America’s Regional Secretary, Adriana Rosenzvaig said, “Today,
our concern goes well beyond the situation that Brazil is experiencing.
We are worried about this new neoliberal front, which is clearly closing
in on our region and is adversely affecting the poorest people,
increasing unemployment, inequality, income distribution and
constitutional liberties that guarantee the rights to demonstrate,
strike and bargain collectively.”
UNI Global Union General Secretary Philip Jennings said, “The heavy
repression suffered by those who oppose Dilma’s dismissal and the
arguments used by the governments of Brazil and Argentina to criminalise
social protest are unacceptable and immoral. This level of repression
is evidence that the purveyors of this new era of neo-liberalism are
prepared to resort to old measures to crush the legitimate right of
working people to protest. Dilma’s impeachment marks the end of an era
of inclusive growth in Brazil."
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