Economy Minister Paulo Guedes sent last weekend a message to President Jair Bolsonaro in which he compared the granting of salary readjustments to public servants, at this time, to the collapse of the dam in Brumadinho, in 2019.
The message, also passed on to presidential aides and members of the economic team, emphasizes that granting salary increases, at this time, may create small leaks in the Brazilian economy, leading to an explosion.
“It’s Brumadinho: small successive leaks until the dam explodes and they all die in the mud”, he highlighted in an excerpt of the message obtained by the CNN Brasil.
On Monday (7), Federal Revenue officials started a national strike after the federal government included in the 2022 budget proposal the forecast of an adjustment only for security agents, in an amount of R$ 1.7 billion.
“Costs of War”
In addition to the Federal Revenue, other public service entities are also planning a strike, in January, in search of salary readjustments, in what may be, according to members of the associations, the biggest strike in the public service in the last nine years.
In Guedes’ message, the minister also emphasizes that asking for a salary adjustment at this time, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, “is refusing to share the costs of the war.”
“They cannot turn a generation’s war effort into an electoral spree,” he said. “We are a generation that has already paid for the pandemic war,” he added.
According to the minister, the concession at this time would be “fiscal irresponsibility and lack of commitment to future generations”. He also warned that a series of salary readjustments should put even more pressure on inflation rates.
The minister added that the approval of the administrative reform, with difficulties to be processed in the National Congress, would help to restructure the public careers of the disaffected segments.
“The administrative reform cuts R$ 30 billion a year and could increase 10% of civil servants’ salaries”, he pointed out.
Reference: CNN Brasil
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