Minister Kátia Magalhães Arruda, of the Superior Labor Court (TST), rapporteur of the process that deals with the collective conflict of Correios workers, determined that the unions maintained 80% of the active workforce in each of the public units. Part of the workers’ representation approved a strike in the public company, which is going through a financial crisis, and obtained approval on Thursday for a loan of 12 billion reais.
According to the TST decision, union leaders are also prevented from working at the entrance to the units to prevent the entry of employees and postal freight due to the strike.
In case of non-compliance with the decision, the minister set a daily fine of R$100,000 to be paid by the union.
The decision comes after the category’s unions approved the launch of the strike during hearings mediated by the TST.
TST mediation was requested by Correios management to prevent the strike from further harming Correios’ financial situation and service provision.
In an attempt to reach a consensus with employees around the collective agreement (ACT), Correios proposed this Tuesday the granting of an inflation adjustment and gave in to other clauses favorable to the category, but without payment of a turkey voucher. Until then, the company had not proposed any adjustment given the serious financial situation of the public company.
Employees want to keep their benefits, such as an additional 70% vacation pay, 200% weekend pay and a R$2,500 “good turkey” subsidy, but Correios argued that the state-owned company’s situation does not allow this.
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