After
France, Brazil officially enters the neo-Feudal era!
Mission accomplished. The global neoliberal regime
managed to extend officially its neo-Feudal transformation beyond
Europe, this time in Brazil. After Greece,
as the experimental field for the neo-Feudal conditions, France,
where last year the French government (part of which was current
president, Emmanuel Macron) passed an unprecedented anti-labor law,
the turn of Brazil has come.
Alarms were activated right after Dilma Rousseff lost
power through a constitutional
coup and replaced by one of the most corrupted
right-wing politicians, Michel Temer. One of his missions was to turn
the course of Brazil away from leftist policies, towards
neoliberalism. This has been proved now through the labor reform bill
he passed on Tuesday night that has drawn angry reactions from trade
unions and the Brazilian left.
TeleSur
revealed some of the most shocking changes:
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If a worker is contracted as “intermittent” (article 443), she
or he is not guaranteed the minimum wage, holidays, or a Christmas
bonus. These will be up to the employer.
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Workers will no longer be able to choose which worker's union
represents them. She or he will be obliged to accept all decisions
made by arbitrarily selected unions.
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After collective bargaining negotiations, severely weakened by the
arbitrary selected of the trade union, employers will be legally
allowed to eliminate previously established workers' rights.
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If a worker's arbitrarily selected union implements a norm that is
damaging to union members, then no member will have the legal
right to contest the measure in court.
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A worker's physical safety is valued in accordance with each
worker's wages. In other words, if a worker suffers an accident at
work, (roughly 700,000 occur each year in Brazil and even former
president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, lost a finger while
operating heavy equipment) “your life is worth how much you
earn” according to article 223-G.
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If a worker, for whatever reason, fails to attend a court hearing
related to her or his accident, the worker will be obliged to
reimburse the State for expenses incurred. She or he will also
have to pay back the company's legal fees.
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Workers who earn more than $685 a month and are fired from their
position without receiving past wages or a severance package will
be required to pay their own legal fees to bring the case to the
Justice Department. Litigation could take years and there's no
guarantee that the worker will receive a favorable ruling. Also, a
worker's rent, children's school fees, or any other personal
expenses will not be taken into consideration when determining the
legal fees he or she must pay.
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The termination of contracts "by mutual accord" will be
implemented. In other words, formal job layoffs will be a thing of
the past. Workers can simply be asked to kindly leave the
premises.
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Pregnant women will not be protected against working in unhealthy
environments. That includes working in noisy, dusty, sunny, and
other harmful environments as long as a doctor authorizes it.
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As Dilma Rousseff tweeted: Brazil is in mourning. After
74 years of victories, by 50 votes the Senate handed workers a
defeat.
O Brasil está de luto. Depois de 74 anos de conquistas, por 50 votos, o Senado impõe derrota aos trabalhadores. A CLT está morta.— Dilma Rousseff (@dilmabr) July 12, 2017
The onslaught of the global neoliberal regime in various
forms around the world will be continued. The more the elites see
that the traditional political center which serves neoliberalism is
squeezed by 'radicalism', the more brutal this onslaught will become.
Yet, what they truly afraid, is the left 'radicalism'. It can be
depicted in Brazil, Venezuela, but also inside the 'heart of the
beast', where Bernie Sanders in the US and Jeremy Corbyn in the UK
enjoy a rapidly rising popularity, coming - to a significant degree -
from the youth.
As long as the regime realizes that threat can come also
from inside the traditional centers of neoliberalism, we should
expect more repression measures, provocative operations,
constitutional coups, unprecedented propaganda campaigns, internet
control, etc. Stay ready and alarmed. The war will be continued and
it will be harder than ever.
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