After sending an email, they are considering filing an ADI (Direct Action of Unconstitutionality) with the (Supreme Federal Court) against the law, sanctioned by the PT member.
The initiative must bring together CUT (Central Única dos Trabalhadores), Força Sindical, UGT (União Geral dos Trabalhadores), CTB (Central das Trabalhadores do Brasil), NCST (New Central Sindical de Trabalhadores) and CSB (Central dos Sindicatos Brasileiros). Furthermore, it must also be taken over by workers’ confederations. The intention is to present the ADI after the Judiciary recess, which ends in February.
Valeir Ertle, national secretary of Legal Affairs at CUT, says that the centers understand that the law separates retirees from other workers. “It has no place. This is completely unconstitutional. It cannot separate retirees from other workers. This law could also end up being turned against trade unions”, he says.
According to him, trade unions are already facing a series of financing problems, and the law will worsen the weakening of entities that represent retirees.
“We are going to meet, discuss and socialize the piece, discussing with other legal professionals from the union centers, to make a very robust piece”, he states.
Ertle is not afraid of criticism for trying to overturn the law, created in Congress as a reaction to deviations involving associative discounts for INSS retirees and pensioners.
“There were serious entities operating. Some mistakes may have been happening, but some of the entities were serious. But you had entities that were created to defraud, that were not even authorized to operate,” says Ertle.
“Contag has a history of 50 years of struggle, Contraf Brasil, which was linked to CUT, has a history”, he argues. “These people who defrauded workers and Social Security must be put in jail. It’s a horrible thing.”
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