Retirees march in defense of the readjustment in the minimum wage and INSS benefits

Retirees, active workers and trade unionists held, this Friday morning (28), a demonstration in the capital of São Paulo against the plan of the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, to stop correcting the minimum wage and retirement for the inflation of the previous year. .

The act was an initiative of the Metalworkers Union of São Paulo and Mogi das Cruzes, but it also brought together other union centrals. According to organizers, approximately 1,000 people participated in the demonstration.

The action started at 8 am, in front of the Metalworkers Union of São Paulo and continued to the National Union of Retirees, in the central region of São Paulo.

Miguel Torres, president of Força Sindical, CNTM and the Metalworkers Union of São Paulo and Mogi das Cruzes, says that the act was done in defense of democracy and in favor of an appreciation of the minimum wage and social security and assistance benefits.

After the plan was revealed by the SheetGuedes said during a virtual event with representatives of cooperatives that the proposal to remove the correction of the minimum wage and retirement for past inflation comes from PT militants infiltrated in the ministry.

according to Sheet revealed, the disclosure of the plan opened a crisis in the Ministry of Economy. According to reports, Guedes started an internal operation to try to find out who was responsible for the leak.

After the information was revealed, the minister said that workers, retirees and pensioners received increases in the minimum wage, pensions and pensions, even during the pandemic. “We protect the elderly and workers who receive the minimum wage, we correct wages, pensions, benefits and pensions.”

The last time the national floor was readjusted above inflation — that is, with a real gain — was in early 2019.