Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes (PSD) has announced that he will begin to lay off workers on the BRT – Rio de Janeiro’s articulated bus system – who are on strike. They remain in stoppage this Saturday morning, 26, contrary to the decision of the Labor Court, which determined the return to operation of at least 80% of the fleet.
The city of Rio informed, in a press release, that eight people were identified who would be leading the movement of the BRT system. “Those responsible will be notified this Saturday, the 26th, about their dismissals for just cause, due to the illegality of the movement and non-attendance to work”, says the statement.
Drivers demand salary readjustments and better working conditions. The City of Rio reported that there was “no prior notice” and that the strike is illegal.
“Unfortunately, we are going to have to start making the first dismissals for just cause due to the illegality of the stoppage and non-attendance to work”, published Paes on his social networks, after a meeting, this Saturday morning, with the management of Mobi-Rio. , a public company currently responsible for managing the BRT system. “Furthermore, I spoke with the Minister of Justice asking the federal police to enter the case, as the evidence of a federal lockout crime is growing stronger. The carioca population cannot be disrespected for ulterior motives”, added the mayor.
According to Eduardo Paes, the workers who joined the strike received the compensation they were entitled to in the termination of the previous concessionary company, were recently hired by Mobi-Rio, are receiving their salaries on time and the strike has already been considered illegal by the Labor Court. .
Failure to comply with the court decision to restore the service provided for a daily fine of BRL 100,000. The stoppage, which began at dawn on Friday, 25, follows the takeover of the service, announced by Mayor Eduardo Paes last week. Signed in 2010, the BRT concession contract was scheduled to end only in 2030, but the City Hall alleged failures in the provision of the service – users have been complaining about the bad conditions of the buses for years.
“Mobi-Rio, the public company that manages the service, will file a petition in court to start the collection of the daily fine of R$ 100 thousand reais. The prefecture also advises the population to look for public transport alternatives for locomotion, such as urban buses, trains and subway”, the prefecture communicated, in an official note.
A contingency plan provides for the operation of some lines in the system, in an attempt to reduce the disruption caused by the strike.
The union that represents the workers of road transport companies informed, in a note, “that it did not deliberate, nor did it trigger the stoppage of the BRT-Rio system”.
“Everything indicates that the wage freeze for more than 3 years, which has already affected the subsistence of workers’ families, generated an accumulation of dissatisfaction and anxiety that precipitated this spontaneous stoppage”, justified Sintrucad-Rio, in the note.
The union stated that it had been negotiating with the City Hall, since November last year, a collective agreement so that all employees of the former concessionaire would be automatically hired by the new management, commanded by Mobi-Rio, “including those who are removed by the INSS”.
“In a democracy, a judicial decision must be complied with and not discussed, and then appealed,” warned the president of the Rio de Janeiro Road Workers Union, Sebastião José, in a note distributed to the press on Friday, in which he said have been as surprised as BRT users by the news of the drivers’ stoppage.
Sebastião considers it “important and prudent” that the strikers comply with the court decision, but defends the immediate reopening of negotiations so that the workers’ demands are met.
The lack of BRTs causes disturbances in the city’s traffic, especially in the west, leaving many people unable to move. The municipality entered the mobilization stage – the second level on a scale of five – due to mobility problems in the city.
On Friday, Mayor Eduardo Paes blamed bus entrepreneurs who lost their concessions for the strike. “There are bus operators who are dissatisfied with the expropriation and are using BRT workers to try to win back the concession. I regret to inform you that they will not be successful. Let’s proceed. We are working to restore the system,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
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