Without a meeting with BC, servers maintain a 12-day strike

The president of the National Union of Employees of the Central Bank (Sinal), Fábio Faiad, said that the meeting expected for the morning of this Tuesday with the president of the BC, Roberto Campos Neto, did not take place and that, therefore, the union’s position it is for the continuity of the strike of the civil servants of the municipality, which is already on the 12th day.

The category has a general meeting scheduled for this Tuesday to decide the direction of the movement.

At the last minute, the BC began to provide on the agenda of the Director of Administration, Carolina de Assis Barros, a meeting from 11 am to 12 pm this Tuesday with the unions that represent the body’s servers.

According to Faiad, however, the meeting did not make any progress and only served for the director to inform that there would be no further conversation with Campos Neto until he had a more concrete proposal for the demands of the category.

BC civil servants are asking for a salary increase of 26.3% and career restructuring, such as changing the name of the analyst position and requiring higher education for a career as a technician.

“There will be no meeting with President Roberto. He will only meet with us when he has news of the proposal,” he told Broadcast, Grupo Estado’s real-time news system.

Asked if there was any indication that Campos Neto continues to seek a proposal for the servers and if the matter could be included in the lunch agenda with the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, at 1 pm, Faiad only said that there was no indication and that he did not know if the topic will be addressed.

The BC servers strike began on April 1 and has an indefinite term. The movement already delays the release of several indicators and reports from the autarchy, such as the Focus Bulletin, which is an important compass for the market on the direction of the Brazilian economy.

The “data blackout” also comes at a crucial moment for monetary policy. Yesterday, Campos Neto indicated that the BC will analyze whether there have been changes in the trend after the surprise with the IPCA – official inflation index – in March (1.62%).

The movement should also affect the publication of the Central Bank’s Economic Activity Index (IBC-Br) for February, whose release was scheduled for the 14th. Exchange flow data have not been updated for two weeks. Likewise, the BC did not release the external sector, credit and fiscal notes for February.