The index will also be applied to benefits such as food/meal vouchers, food basket vouchers, dependent assistance and daycare reimbursement; the discount relating to the strike must be paid in installments over three months
O unanimously decided that the workers’ strike It was not abusive, but it determined the discount for the days of stoppage. Workers must return to activities.
Without an agreement between the workers’ unions and the Post Office on the salary increase, the TST still determined a 5.1% increase from August 1, 2025. The index will also be applied to benefits such as food/meal vouchers, basket vouchers, dependent assistance and daycare reimbursement.
The discount relating to the strike must be paid in installments over three months. The decision, taken on Tuesday, 30th, allows the replacement of suspended days to replace the discount, if the company’s management considers this option more appropriate.
The workers had begun to strike activities on the 17th in agencies in Mato Grosso, Ceará, Paraíba, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, as well as in some regions of São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. Correios requested a declaration of abusiveness of the strike on the grounds that the movement was launched before collective negotiations were exhausted.
For the rapporteur, minister Kátia Magalhães Arruda, several negotiation meetings took place between July and December. She highlighted that the strike began in some unions and that the strike that began on December 23 occurred after the rejection of the proposal created within the scope of the pre-procedural complaint at the TST.
The TST ruling also ensures benefits such as payment of 70% vacation bonus and an additional 200% for work on rest days. A clause was included that guarantees special reduced working hours for women with children or dependents with disabilities, without salary reduction and without the need for time compensation. The device is based on a binding thesis established by the TST that guarantees this right to public employees.
Regarding the salary adjustment and benefits, Minister Maria Cristina Peduzzi disagreed and voted to maintain the proposal presented by Correios, highlighting that the dispute “involves a state-owned company in an alarming economic-financial situation”. At this point, she was accompanied by minister Ives Gandra Martins Filho.
The majority of ministers, however, voted for a proposal intermediate to that of Correios and the workers’ unions. Among the employees’ demands was an additional 250% for work on weekends.
*With Estadão Content
