Postal workers in Brazil will begin a national strike today to protest against the reforms carried out by the government of Michel Temer and the threat of privatisation of this old institution.
The strike will also serve to express dissatisfaction with the closure of agencies during the last year, compulsory holiday suspension and to demand the resignation of the president of the institution, Guilherme Campos, Brazil Workers Confederation reported.
Founded in 1663, the Brazilian Postal and Telegraph Company, one of the oldest in the country, lives under the government of coup president Michel Temer, the worst period in its history, according to the newspaper Brasil de Fato, which reports that thousands of officials were cancelled and 250 units closed.
According to the Minister of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications, Gilberto Kassab, Brazil Post Office will have to make radical cuts in its expenses to avoid privatisation, because the executive will not bring any resource to the company, he stated.
The strike, decided by the Interstate Federation of Postal Workers, precedes the national general strike called for next Friday by the main trade union centres of the country and the fronts Popular Brazil and Fearless People against labour and pension reforms driven by Temer.
Also in the last days, the Catholic and Evangelical churches joined the strike, which criticizes the policy of rights violation that the current government is carrying out.