Date: Thursday, July 3, 2014, 4:00 PM
At: Brazilian Consulate - 300 Montgomery St., #300
Sponsored by United Public Workers For Action, www.upwa.info
Stop Repression and Union Busting
Rehire The 42 Brazilian Sao Paulo Metro Workers' Union members!
Bring your placards, banners and protest
URGENT CALL FROM BRAZIL: WE NEED YOUR SOLIDARITY
Sao Paulo Transit Workers: Intensify the struggle, defend the right to strike, prevent any punishment, we want to negotiate now.
Everyone has been following the mobilizations going on in Brazil with strikes and demonstration by workers and popular organizations expressing their indignation about the World Cup with its astronomic costs and corruption, all in function of the interests of the multinational companies and FIFA.
But at the same time people have been .putting forward their concrete struggles making demands for salaries, rights, housing, better public services. They have denounced repression and criminalization of dissent, etc.
At this moment, the transit workers in Sao Paulo are in the fifth day of a strike which began last Thursday. The transport workers carry 4,000,000 passengers every day in the city where, next Thursday, June 12, the opening of the World Cup will take place. Because this strike is so important, the government has decided that it has to be defeated come what may. It is seeking to impose an end to the strike and also prevent the mobilizations from escalating in the coming days.
Brazilian Justice, working hand in hand with the interests of the government, big business and FIFA declared the strike illegal today and demanded that the transit workers return to work immediately. It has established a daily fine of US$ 250,000 on their union for non-compliance.
This decision by the Justice Ministry allows the government to dismiss the strikers, contravening all their legal and economic rights.
We are counting on the support and solidarity of all the Brazilian union centrals that are organization initiatives in support of the strike (see note below)
The Union and the workers have decided to continue the strike, despite the government’s orders, in order to defend their demands and also to defend their right to strike.
We need your support and solidarity. Send messages to the e-mails below, post photos on social networks, broadcast this call on your lists and web sites
Full support for the Sao Paulo Transit Workers
Response to the demands of the transit sector
In defence of the right to strike.!
No to repression, no punishment!
Alckman negotiate!
Altino Prazeres
President, Sao Paulo Transit Workers Union
International Network of Solidarity and Struggle
CSP Conlutas - Brasil
Solidarity With Brazil Sao Paulo Transit Workers-Money For Football But Not Transit Workers
Solidariedade internacional: greve dos metroviários
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5078LVQotPs
Brazil Sao Paulo Transit Strike Called Off-42 Workers Fired
http://www.thestate.com/2014/06/11/3500783/subway-strike-suspended-in-sao.html
United Public Workers For Action
www.upwa.info
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