Central Bank employees approve strike from April 1

Due to salary readjustment and career restructuring, Central Bank servers will go on strike indefinitely from April 1st.

The decision was approved in assembly this Monday (28), with the support of more than 90% of the 1,300 active servants who participated in the deliberation.

Without an official proposal from the government, officials voted in favor of intensifying the mobilization. The servers had already been performing daily outages from 2 pm to 6 pm since March 17th and operating in standard operation.

Earlier, the BC announced that the economic-financial notes for the month of February will not be released throughout this week, as expected.

The external sector statistics, which include foreign direct investments in Brazil, for example, would be published this Monday, at 9:30 am. The monetary and credit statistics were scheduled for Wednesday (30th) and the fiscal ones, for Thursday (31st), both at the same time.

“In due course, we will inform the dates of publication of the notes for the month of February 2022”, said the BC, without commenting on the reason for the postponement.

The mobilization of BC servants has caused a series of delays in the monetary authority’s routine, especially in the dissemination of indicators.

The publication of the Focus survey, with economists’ forecasts on inflation, GDP and other data, was impacted for the second week in a row. The data, announced on Mondays around 8:25 am, did not air until 10 am.

In addition, in recent weeks, there has been a delay in the publication of exchange rate data, the result of the pre-Copom questionnaire and the calculation of the daily ptax rate (exchange rate), in addition to interruptions in the preventive monitoring of Pix and SPB (System of Brazilian Payments).

Last Saturday (26), members of the representative bodies of BC servers met with the president of the autarchy, Roberto Campos Neto, without any progress on the claimed agendas.

In a press conference last week, after the release of the quarterly inflation report, the BC president said he respects the right of employees to exercise any type of manifestation.

“I understand that they have a huge sense of responsibility for the quality and delivery of services to society and that we have contingency plans in place in case something more severe happens,” he said.

The movement of BC servers is part of the national mobilization of the civil service for salary recomposition after President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) waved a raise for federal police officers, federal highway workers and prison guards. The amount available in the Budget to raise the remuneration of civil servants is R$ 1.7 billion.