Banks Workers in Brazil have started the strike

Publicado: 29 Septiembre 2010
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 Since the begin of this morning (29) workers from public and private banks in Brazil, have stopped their activities, after the FEBRABAN – The Brazilian Federation of Banks, not present a propose to increase the salary during the Collective Bargain process.



In Assembly, that took place in the last night, the workers have decided running a strike for a not determined time in all of banks.

According to Contraf CUT, workers from São Paulo, and other 90 unions place have approved the strike yesterday. Places from, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Campo Grande, Salvador Florianópolis, Mato Grosso, Alagoas, Acre, Piauí, Rondônia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Maranhão, Pará e Amapá, Bahía, Roraima, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Sergipe, Amazonas, Goiás, Rio Grande do Norte, Tocantins, have stopped the activities today.

The strike took place in others Cities as, Niterói (RJ), Campinas (SP), Bragança Paulista (SP), Angra dos Reis (RJ), Baixada Fluminense (RJ), Três Rios (RJ), Araraquara (SP), Campina Grande (PB), Guarapuava (PR), Juiz de Fora (MG), Limeira (SP), Vitória da Conquista (BA), Dourados (MS), São Borja (RS), Cruz Alta (RS), Vale do Paranhana (RS), Santo Ângelo (RS), ABC (SP), Irecê (BA), Londrina (PR), Mogi das Cruzes (SP), Nova Friburgo (RJ), São José dos Campos (SP), Teresópolis (RJ), Sul Fluminense (RJ), Franca (SP) e Cariri (CE), Santos (SP), Piracicaba (SP), Rio Claro (SP), Ribeirão Preto (SP) – Caixa, Jundiaí (SP), Santa Cruz do Sul (RS) – Caixa, Campo Mourão (PR), Cornélio Procópio (PR), Paranavaí (PR), Santa Maria (RS), Toledo (PR), Umuarama (PR), Andradina (SP), Araçatuba (SP), Corumbá (SP) - BB e Caixa, Guaratinguetá (SP), Marília (SP), Naviraí (MS), Ponta Porã (MS), São José do Rio Preto (SP), Sorocaba (SP), Tupã (SP), Joaçaba (SC), Rondonópolis (MT), Alegrete (RS), Bento Gonçalves (RS) – Caixa, Carazinho (RS), Caxias do Sul (RS), Ijuí (RS), Litoral Norte (RS), Novo Hamburgo (RS) – Caixa, Passo Fundo (RS), Pelotas (RS) - privados e Caixa, Rosário do Sul (RS), Santiago (RS) – BB e Vale do Caí (RS).

Beside of the salary circumstances the workers want a better propose on the distribution of the participation on the results of the bank, and a serious discuss about the consequences of the pressure that they have suffered from the banks to achieve the commercial goals.

More information: www.spbancarios.com.br y www.contrafcut.org.br