The mentality of those who carried out the labor reform is a slave, says Lula

Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) again criticized the labor reform this Thursday (12), claiming that its authors have a “slavery mentality”.

“The mentality of those who carried out the labor reform, the union reform, is the slave mentality, of those who think that unions do not have to be strong, they do not have representation. In the developed world where you have a strong economy, you have a strong union, in any country in the world. If you have a strong economy, you have a strong union”, said the former president.

The PT has been criticizing the changes in labor legislation adopted during the Michel Temer (MDB) government, which among other actions ended the union tax and created the intermittent contract.

The revision of the reform is considered a controversial issue and that causes noise in the PT pre-campaign. The PT proposed, and the party federation it will form endorsed, a proposal to revoke the reform — although Lula himself recognizes obstacles to the initiative.

This Thursday’s statements were made at a time when Lula claimed that unions participated in negotiation rounds with businessmen during his government.

The PT participated in the panel that closed the fourth edition of SindiMais, an annual meeting that brings together specialists in union and labor relations.

In his speech on Thursday, he also repeated that it is necessary to “put the poor in the economy” and also said that it is necessary to gain credibility and predictability.

“There are two things that we have to be sure of and that are valid for union leaders, for the president, for businessmen and for workers: we need to gain credibility, so that people believe what we say, and we need to be predictable. can be taken by surprise every night,” he said.

Lula also reinforced that, during his administration, he created a negotiation commission between workers, businessmen, union centrals and the government to “try to establish a new union structure and a new world of rights for workers”.

“I, for example, am not one of those who defends the CLT [Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho] just as she was. I think she needs to adapt and make some changes so that we can adapt to the current job market. But it was important that we had the minimum necessary guaranteed so that the unions could freely negotiate as much as possible”, she said.

The PT also criticized President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), calling him a “dictator”. “Yesterday [quarta] I heard the current president say that it is important for the people to buy weapons, because only the people with weapons will prevent the people from having a dictatorial government. He’s a dictator.”

“I, instead of weapons, want the worker to receive books at home, so that he can go to university (…) because it is professional qualification that values ​​salary”, Lula continued.

The statements come a day after the PT declared that he will not have a cat roof in his government, if elected president.

“There will be no spending cap in my government. Not that I will be irresponsible, spend to indebted the nation’s future. It will have to spend on what is necessary,” he said.

During a meeting with deans of Minas Gerais universities in Juiz de Fora (MG), the former president said it was necessary to invest in profitable assets, education being one of them.

Still in Juiz de Fora, Lula said that the Jair Bolsonaro government (PL) does not know what it is doing in the economy and reinforced his speech against privatizations.