See who’s who in the transition groups on Work and Social Security

The technical groups for the transition of the government of President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) on Social Security and Work will include a former minister, researchers and trade unionists.

Today the two themes are in the same ministry. During most of Jair Bolsonaro’s (PL) management, they were just secretaries in Paulo Guedes’ Ministry of Economy.

In July last year, he recreated the portfolio and gave it to his ally Onyx Lorenzoni, who ran for governor of Rio Grande do Sul in October, but was defeated.

The names that will compose the working groups were announced this Thursday (16) by the elected vice-president and coordinator of the transition, Geraldo Alckmin (PSB). There are 16 names in total (10 from Labor and 6 from Social Security), mostly union members.

The presidents of the three main trade union centrals are part of the work team: Sérgio Nobre, from CUT (Central Única dos Trabalhadores); Miguel Torres, from Força Sindical; Adilson Araújo, from CTB (Central dos Trabalhadores e Trabalhadores do Brasil).

In addition to them, there are also members of academia, researchers and professors. In the Work team, for example, there is Fausto Augusto Júnior, university professor and director of Dieese.

The group will also have the participation of Laís Abramo, sociologist, master and doctor in Sociology from USP, specialist in inequalities and racial and gender relations at work.

The only former minister is José Pimentel, who was a federal deputy and senator for Ceará, as well as Minister of Social Security in Lula’s second government.

See below for the nominees for the working groups, as released by the transition team.

SOCIAL SECURITY

• Alessandro Antônio Stefanutto, Federal Prosecutor, former General Coordinator of the Administration of Prosecutions, former head of the PFE/INSS (Specialized Federal Prosecutor’s Office of the INSS).

• Eduardo Fagnani: Doctor Professor at Unicamp’s Institute of Economics, Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Development, researcher at the Center for Labor and Union Studies, and editor of the Social Policy and Development Magazine.

• Fabiano Silva: Coordinator at the Rights and Prerogatives Commission of the OAB-SP, member of the Pension Commission of the OAB-SP and of the Pension Commission of the Federal Council of the OAB.

• Jane Berwanger: Professor, lawyer and doctor in social security law.

• José Pimentel: Former Senator of Ceará for the PT, he was Minister of State for Social Security during the Lula government, in addition to being a federal deputy for four consecutive terms

• Luiz Antônio Adriano da Silva: National Secretary General of Solidariedade. He was active in the São Paulo Metallurgist Union and also in the Tatuí Union. He was on the Social Assistance Board and the Social Security Board.

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• Adilson Araújo🇧🇷 President of the CTB (Central of Workers and Workers of Brazil).

• André Calixtre: Researcher at the Institute of Applied Economic Research, he was Head of the Technical Advisory of the Presidency of IPEA and Advisor in the Cabinet of the Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic during the Dilma government.

• Clemente Gantz Lucio: sociologist, former technical director of DIEESE (Inter-union Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies) and member of the Council for Economic and Social Development.

• Fausto Augusto Júnior: University Professor and Technical Director of DIEESE (Inter-union Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies)

• Laís Abramo: sociologist, Master and PhD in Sociology from USP; she was Director of ECLAC’s Social Development Division (2015-2019), ILO Director in Brazil (2005-2015) and ILO Regional Specialist on Gender and Labor for Latin America (1999-2005). She is the author of several publications on the labor market, trade unionism, inequalities and racial and gender relations in the world of work.

• Miguel Torres: President of Força Sindical, he has a long trajectory in the union movement and a whole life dedicated to the social fights in the country.

• Patrícia Vieira Trópia, PhD in Social Sciences from Unicamp, professor at the Institute of Social Sciences at the Federal University of Uberlândia. She chaired the Brazilian Association of Labor Studies for the period 2020-2021.

• Ricardo Patah: President of UGT (General Union of Workers), he is also president of the Commerce Workers Union of São Paulo.

• Sandra Brandão: is an economist, Master in Economics from Unicamp.

• Sérgio Nobre: ​​National President of CUT (United Workers’ Central). He also coordinated the Automotive Sector of the National Confederation of Metallurgists.