It decided, in a session held on Wednesday (21), that the secretary general of, João Carlos Gonçalves, Juruna, suffered persecution in and, therefore, is entitled to be considered, receiving lifetime monthly reparation of $ 2,000.
He also obtained counting for retirement from October 1983 until January 1984.
Juruna participated in the session in person. “I was very moved because the trial raises the debate about the political persecution that hit the workers and workers. The people who worked at CIPA (Internal Accident Prevention Commission), we knew that after two years we were liquidated,” he says. CIPA gave stability to the employee.
In July 1980, he got a job in the Villares Industry, south of São Paulo, where he occupied the function of quality inspector. There, he was elected a member of CIPA for two in a row, from September 1981 to October 1983. In the process, Juruna says union activists were constantly persecuted through monitoring and information passed on by companies.
On October 3, 1983, he was fired after a worker strike and after the salary campaign of the Metallurgical category of São Paulo, amid the end of his term in CIPA and monitoring by repression bodies.
He was then called by the company Taito, also to work with quality inspector. Juruna would start working in January 1984, but when he performed at the company with ten other new hires, the HR representative asked who participated in a union. She was silent, and when asked directly, she replied that she only cut her hair in the union and attended the holiday camp.
According to Juruna, everyone went to work except him, who had the badge with his torn photo. “I should have saved the picture,” he says to the panel. A few days later, however, he got a job at Fligor.
He says that the condition of amnesty is a recognition of workers’ struggles and their ability to risk. “It’s a judgment that shows that even in the most difficult situations you have to raise your head.”
The Secretary-General of Força Sindical says that there are few trials in the Commission of persecuted workers. “You had trial of intellectuals, teachers. My judgment will give positive repercussions so that workers who did not open process and were persecuted at the time to do it. As there are people today who defend that dictatorship. And often our people enter this soft conversation. We see that democracy is the best for Brazil.”
Alberto Albiero Junior, who represented Juruna in the commission, also celebrated the granting of the condition of amnesty. “The dismissal of Juruna in 1983 is part of the political persecution perpetrated by the Brazilian State and the great business community to maintain a dictatorial regime at the service of workers’ overexploitation, so there must be reparation.”
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