Public servants hold strike for increase this Tuesday

Servers ask for inflation correction between 2019 and 2021 (Credit: Mariana Sousa/Fonacate)

Public servants from more than 50 categories have held, since the morning of this Tuesday (18), a strike due to salary increases.

Led by the National Permanent Forum for Typical State Careers (Fonacate), the Forum of National Entities of Federal Public Servants (Fonasefe) and the trade union centrals, workers also held an act in front of the Central Bank building in the morning, with about 250 present, and, in the afternoon, they go to the Ministry of Economy.

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There is still no balance on the share of servers that joined the strike, but the expectation of the National Union of Employees of the Central Bank (Sinal) is that more than 50% of the body’s servers should join the strike.

And the whole fight began when President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) guaranteed a raise only for public security professionals, a category in which he should have broad support for his reelection. The other categories were unhappy with this decision and claim an increase of 19.99%, which corresponds to the inflationary loss between 2019 and 2021.

The act takes place on the eve of the approval of the 2022 budget, which set aside R$1.7 billion for increases for federal police, federal highway police officers and prison guards. The government claims that it has not yet hit the nail on the head on the subject. Bolsonaro has until next Friday (22) to approve or not the text.

According to the Forums, employees of the Central Bank, the Federal Revenue Service, Itamaraty and regulatory agencies participate in the acts. The categories also demand a meeting with the Minister of Economy Paulo Guedes.

Fonacate president Rudinei Marques declared that, in addition to the salary tariff, civil servants will denounce interference by the Bolsonaro government in bodies such as Ibama, ICMBio, Inpe and the Federal Police in what he called “unprecedented government interference in the history of the country”. parents”

“We are taking to the streets to say that we will not accept this undignified treatment that the Bolsonaro government has given to the public service,” he said. He also recalled a speech by Minister Paulo Guedes, in 2020, that the suspension of the increase in servers was a “grenade” that the government would have placed “in the enemy’s pocket”.