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In the last of the outstanding state, Roraima, workers voted for strike on Tuesday evening.



According to the National Confederation of Finance Sector Workers (Contraf/CUT), nearly hundred local unions have reported that the movement has quickly increased and the strength of the strike is proportional to the workers’ dissatisfaction. Carlos Cordeiro, the president of Contraf, warns that bank workers want to resume negotiations and it is up to the employers to present a new and decent proposal.



“Banks can afford to pay workers’ demands as can be seen through the millions they pay for their

executives”, highlights Cordeiro. A survey organized by the Inter-union Department of Statistics and Socio-economic Studies (DIEESE) shows that a single executive can earn up to 400 times what a newly hired bank employee can. This inequality, one of the biggest in the world, has to come to an end, points Cordeiro.



Brazilian bank workers went on strike on Tuesday 27 after the failure of the fifth round of negotiations with employers’ organisation Fenaban. Employers proposed a pay rise of 0.56%. Cordeiro says that the proposal included neither improvement in employment or working conditions, nor in health and safety conditions. Bank workers demanded a pay rise of 5.00%. In addition they call for the improvement in the sector’s wage floor, the better possibilities to participate to profit-sharing and job creation. Workers would like to stop the moral harassment as well as get rid of the massive sales targets. They demand also for more safety, equal opportunities and ending of precarious employment.



Source: Contraf/CUT