President of the Electricity Workers Union of São Paulo, Eduardo Annunciato approached the Lula government to defend that the contract with the energy distributor in the state be maintained and that its expiry be ruled out.
He asked for conversations with the ministers of Labor, Luiz Marinho, and Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira.
Although he recognizes problems in the service provided by the company, the union leader, known as Chicão, says that the end of the contract will represent a very high risk of loss for the workers.
“Expiry ends employment, work and service contracts, everything. The bill would be around R$20 billion. Someone is going to default on this, and in this tug of war, the worker is always the one who suffers”, says the union leader.
According to the union leader, Enel currently has around 40,000 employees in the state of São Paulo, 5,500 of which are its own employees.
He defends that a TAC (Conduct Adjustment Term) be drawn up, with the participation of the Public Ministry, setting strict targets for service provision and supervision of public authorities, over a period. If they are not complied with, a forfeiture process could be considered as a last resort.
“I don’t want it to be any easier for Enel. But if it’s bad with it, it will be worse without it. I argue that s”, he states.
Enel has a service concession until 2028, and is seeking to renew the contract. The company is opposed by the mayor of São Paulo, Ricardo Nunes (MDB), and governor Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), who call for the opening of a break-up process due to problems in the energy supply, especially after storms.
Aneel (National Electric Energy Agency) is analyzing the request for expiry, with no decision yet.
For Chicão, breaking the contract would not immediately solve the energy supply problem in the state. “If I changed companies, it would take at least two years to change anything,” he says.
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