CGU servers decide to stop and reinforce mobilization for readjustment

In the wake of the Central Bank and National Treasury employees, CGU (Comptroller General of the Union) officials announced, this Thursday (31), the stoppage of activities next Wednesday (6) and the start of an operation- standard, which should impact the delivery of audit reports.

The decision was taken at the meeting on Thursday and had the support of 95% of the participants, who asked for salary recomposition. According to Unacon Sindical (National Union of Federal Auditors and Technicians of Finance and Control), inflationary losses on remuneration could reach 40% this year.

The initiative of the CGU servers reinforces the pressure of the civil service on the government for salary readjustment after President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) has waved an increase only to federal police, a category that makes up his support base.

​The amount available in the Budget to raise the remuneration of civil servants is R$ 1.7 billion.

The movements of several categories gained even more strength this week given the time limit defined by the electoral law for salary readjustments to civil servants.

The provision prohibits the “general review of the remuneration of public servants that exceeds the recomposition of the loss of their purchasing power during the election year” from six months before the election, scheduled for October 2 this year, until the inauguration of the elected.

But there is an understanding by a wing of the government that specific readjustments can be made until July, 180 days before the change of mandate, based on a ruling by the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) and an opinion by the PGFN (Attorney General’s Office of the National Treasury ).

This week, BC servers approved the start of the indefinite strike from April 1st. With no readjustment in the last three years, the category asks for salary recomposition of 26.3% and restructuring of the careers of analysts and technicians.

The monetary authority said it had contingency plans to ensure the functioning of “critical services for the population, markets and the operations of regulated institutions, such as STR [Sistema de Transferência de Reservas]Pix, Selic, among others”.

Sinal (National Union of Central Bank Employees) guaranteed that the law on essential services will be respected by servers, noting that “Pix and several other BC activities are not included in this law. Therefore, many delays or interruptions may occur”.

The members of the representative entities of the servers met, this Thursday, with the BC Administration Board to discuss how the activities of the municipality will progress during the strike. A definition of essential services has not yet been released.

In recent days, the National Treasury officials also decided to intensify the standard operation and scheduled two new stoppages, one this Friday (1st) and another on Tuesday of the next week (5th).

The mobilization has already left a trail of delay in the activities of several areas. In the case of the National Treasury, the release of the government’s gross tax burden estimate for 2021 was postponed to next Monday (4).

Last Friday (25), when the employees interrupted their activities, there was a delay in the payment of overdue Treasury Direct bonds, which led to the opening of several calls to the Undersecretariat for Public Debt.

Employees of the Federal Revenue have also been mobilized. Last Tuesday (29), 200 tax auditors participated in an act in front of the Ministry of Economy, in Brasília. Among the claims, the auditors protested against the lack of public tenders and the reduction of the Federal Revenue’s budget, in addition to asking for career restructuring measures.

General manifestations of the Forum of Entities of Federal Servants (Fonasefe) and the Forum of Typical State Careers (Fonacate) have also taken place.