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Despite the calls of President Jair Bolsonaro, the unemployment of autonomous truckers will continue from this Monday (1st), said the president of the National Council of Road Freight Carriers (CNTRC), Plínio Dias, adding that the duration of the movement is “indeterminate” and that 22 states participate in the council.
One of the leaders of the 2018 strike, Dias says that the reduction or zeroing of PIS / Cofins in diesel, considered by the government, would not be enough to end the strike, because the main problem is the international price parity policy adopted by Petrobras. .
Truckers and people close to the Minister of Infrastructure, Tarcísio de Freitas, told the People’s Gazette at the end of 2020 that the CNTRC, which is relatively new, is not representative. However, other truckers’ organizations support the strike, including the National Confederation of Transport and Logistics Workers (CNTTL) and the Unitary Federation of Petroleum Workers (FUP).
In any case, the strike is far from unanimous in the category. Other truckers’ organizations dialogue with the government and rule out participating in the strike. The main one is the National Confederation of Autonomous Transporters (CNTA), which is debating with the Ministry of Infrastructure an agenda of demands that has 19 points.
On Thursday, the National Transport Confederation (CNT), representative of the transport companies, denied support for the truckers’ strike and assures that it will guarantee supplies in the country.
“If the president calls to talk and resolve, everyone goes back to work.”
“Who would be to blame for the shortage in the country if the movement lasts for three, four, five days, as it was in the time of President Michel Temer, when it lasted 11 days, it is not the truckers, it is who is responsible of the portfolio, “says Plínio Dias, from CNTRC.” If the president calls for a dialogue the first day and decides, everyone returns to work the next day. So far there has been no dialogue with the National Council or with the category. “
On Saturday (30), Bolsonaro asked the category not to strike and said that everyone would lose if that happened, “all of Brazil.”
Asked about the president’s appeal, Dias said he understands that the president cannot incite strikes, but complained that “nothing reached the category of self-employed” in the first two years of government. “We cannot let this year go by, next is an election year, otherwise the truckers will continue in the underworld.”
The president of the CNTRC also said that the category will not block roads, leaving free lanes. “We are going to make the demonstration within the law. We have the right to publicize the category. We are a democratic country and the Constitution has the right to make a free demonstration.”
An injunction granted by the Rio Federal Court on Saturday prohibits striking truckers from blocking, even partially, the BR-101 highway, which runs along the country’s coast. The decision applies to the entire stretch of BR-101 in Rio. A preliminary decision by the São Paulo Court of Justice, granted on Friday (29), had already prohibited blockades on the Presidente Dutra Highway, a section of BR-116 that connects São Paulo with Rio.
The leader of the truckers wants a change in BR do Mar
In addition to the end of the international fuel price parity policy, the category’s claims agenda has another nine points, but another urgent issue, according to Dias, is the change in the wording of project 4199/2020, called “BR do Sea”.
According to the manager, the project gives foreign companies an advantage in cabotage transport, which favored the hiring of fleet companies to carry out freight at the expense of autonomous truckers.
“The truckers are worried about losing jobs,” he says, arguing that the social impact of the project and the conditions of the category in the country’s ports have not been evaluated, which is “in sight.”
The agenda also discusses the special retirement for the category, compliance with the minimum freight floor, established in 2018 after the 11-day strike, respect for the working day and greater supervision by the National Land Transport Agency (ANTT) , among other claims.
