The priority of growth requires the construction of political understanding, the result of social dialogue, about what must be done and about the changes to be promoted.
With the new government, a set of strategies for national development is under construction in Brazil. It is about conceiving economic growth in such a way as to produce socio-environmental results that promote good quality of life for all and environmental sustainability. A simple and clear objective that mobilizes numerous challenges and requires complex strategies.
The Union Centers and their base entities, unions, federations and confederations, launched in April 2022 the Agenda for the Working Class, a document that brings together 63 guidelines for Brazilian development. Now it is a question of presenting them for debate, with a view to building social agreements and formulating strategies to implement them.
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The first priority is to promote initiatives that put the country back on a path of virtuous economic growth, which implies a plan that combines the support of productive activity through investment, innovation, increased productivity and the addition of value with generation strategies. of jobs, wage growth and overcoming poverty and inequalities.
The priority of growth requires the construction of political understanding, the result of social dialogue, about what must be done and about the changes to be promoted.
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The immediate challenge is to replace the capacity of the government to mobilize and articulate the productive sector (capital and labor) around an economic and social development project, generating immediate responses to the problems that companies face. The urgent and immediate challenge is to break with the traps of extremely high interest rates and spreads and the rules that hinder investments. It is necessary to strengthen bold short-term measures that make up a development plan that articulates and coordinates an economic and socio-environmental development project for the country, enunciating objectives, strategies and actions that will guide initiatives over the next four years.
A plan aimed at production and guided by green industry, by investment in economic and social infrastructure, by the dissemination of technology and innovation, mobilizing sectoral expansion vectors, which makes our economy competitive, that is, with real export capacity. This plan requires a macroeconomic environment friendly to sustained growth over time.
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As part of this project, the second priority indicated by the workers is to tune the labor relations system so that it organizes the world of work for this new dynamic of production, also aiming at the generation of quality jobs and wage growth. In addition to structuring internal demand, the labor relations system aims to address all issues related to workers, in terms of working conditions, health and safety, wages, benefits and protections. It is about tuning into a system that values and strengthens collective bargaining in multiple areas of negotiation, carried out by unions with a broad base of representation and high representation, capable of entering into collective conventions and agreements that will effectively govern labor relations.
* Clemente Ganz Lúcio is a sociologist and served as technical director of the Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies (Dieese) between 2004 and 2020.
** This is an opinion article. The author’s view does not necessarily express the editorial line of the newspaper Brazil in fact.
Source: BdF Paraná
Editing: Peter Carrano
