Labor groups outline five-year agenda including gig work regulation.

On Wednesday, Brazilian union headquarters called on citizens to take part in the Workers’ March in Brasilia.

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The mobilization comes after the Workers’ Conference (Conclat), in which Brazilians approved the priorities of the labor demands agenda for the next five years. This document will be delivered to President Lula da Silva.

Among their demands are issues such as reducing the workweek without cutting pay, regulating app-based work, fighting subcontracting, rejecting violence against women, and regulating collective bargaining for public employees.

“This agenda shows what we consider strategic from the point of view of labor participation in the country’s development. It addresses wage increases, improving living conditions, labor protection and social security,” said Clemente Ganz, coordinator of the Union Federations Forum.

The text reads, “Congratulations and thanks to the activists of the Unified Workers’ Central (CUT), all the labor federations, unions, and organizations of all categories for the massive workers’ march that took place in Brasilia today. Taking to the streets demonstrated our struggle’s magnitude and importance.”

Brazilians are also calling for reducing the workweek from 44 to 40 hours, which would allow for a 5×2 schedule, meaning five days of work with eight-hour days and two mandatory days of rest.

Ganz also stressed the importance of debating in the National Congress the regulation of app-based transportation and delivery workers.

“Many countries face this challenge and develop regulations that are often provisional. They will require constant improvements until we can properly understand and regulate a situation that is new from the standpoint of work organization,” he said.

The Brazilian workers’ march coincides with the submission by the Lula administration of an urgent request to Congress to eliminate the system of six days of work and one day of rest.

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Sources: Brasil de Fato

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