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The Brazilian Confederation of Financial Sector Workers

The Brazilian Confederation of Financial Sector Workers. “Bank Workers’ Organisation in Brazil and Communication Practices” Carlos Cordeiro, president of Contraf-CUT and UNI Américas Finance Nyon - June, 2012. Trade Union Framework in Brazil.

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The Brazilian Confederation of Financial Sector Workers

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  1. The Brazilian Confederation of Financial Sector Workers “Bank Workers’ Organisation in Brazil and Communication Practices” Carlos Cordeiro, president of Contraf-CUT and UNI Américas Finance Nyon - June, 2012

  2. Trade Union Framework in Brazil • Fragmented: one union for each professional or occupational group, organised in one town/city or region; • Vertical organisation: unions can be affiliated to regional/state federations or national confederations organised in the same sector; • Horizontal: union can be affiliated to national trade union federations (Main federations: CUT, FS, CTB, CGTB, NCST); • Compulsory Funding: union budget is composed by a union tax (one-day-a-year mandatory discount of each formal worker)

  3. Bank Workers: the only sector nationally organised • 90% of bank workers’ union are affiliated to Contraf/CUT • One single Annual Collective Agreement for all bank workers in the whole country • Individual banks have additional agreements to the main one • National collective bargaining and negotiations with individual banks led by Contraf/CUT (benchmark for other sectors and unions)

  4. Largest Banks / Organisation

  5. Contraf Website(Benchmark for bank workers’ organisations) • 1.3 million webpage visits in 2011 • 420 thousand single visitors • 3.5 thousand visits a day • 75 thousand visits in one single day (Bargaining Campaign)

  6. Contraf Publications OnlineInternational Campaigns Campaign Newspapers for continental protests (Portuguese and Spanish)

  7. Contraf Publications OnlineNational Campaigns Banks don’t respect workers – We want Decent Work! (2011) Another kind of bank is necessary – People First! (2010) Banks abuse! What about the Social Responsability? (2009)

  8. Contraf Publications OnlineNational Campaigns Electronic & Printed Magazine – Victorious National Campaign Electronic Newspaper for Gender Equality

  9. Contraf Publications OnlineSurveys & Partnerships Costumers’ Rights Manual published in partnership with a consumers’ organisation Surveys on banks performance and banking employment

  10. Online Activism“Bank Workers Union of Brasilia” Online TV Follow the union Protest against dismissals inside a bank branch

  11. Online Activism“Bank Workers Union of Brasilia” Bank Workers vote for strike in Brasilia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2XF2PNn8YA Bank workers stoppage for legal working hours (6 hours/day): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MzSvuEaBYhA Text Messaging Union texts union leaders, officials, representatives or activists during strikes, protests and others.

  12. Online Activism“Bank Workers Union of Porto Alegre” Online & Phone Campaign against violence at the workplace Historical Archive Online Partnership with University of Illinoy (USA)

  13. Online Activism“Other local unions” Radio Stations Online Electronic daily newsletter - Email

  14. www.contrafcut.org.br Contact: Rua Líbero Badaró, 158 – 1º Andar São Paulo/SP - Phone: 55 11 31072767 Email: contrafcut@contrafcut.org.br

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