WORLD WORLDWIDE SOUTH AMERICA BRASIL BRAZIL - news journal UPDATE - (en) Brazil, CAB: DOWN WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM - An attack by the Lula Government, the National Congress, and the Financial Market on Public Sector Workers (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 In October, a report containing a Proposed Amendment to the Constitution

(PEC), a Complementary Law Project (PLP), and a Law Project (PL),
bringing together approximately 70 items that make up the so-called
administrative reform, was delivered to the Chamber of Deputies. For a
long time, the financial system (banks, speculators, investment funds,
among others) has been pressuring the Government and Congress for
administrative reform. In the struggle for more resources, a discourse
of "moralization" and "modernization" of the public service is
constructed. This narrative maintains that the government "spends too
much" on the social area and needs to "optimize" its spending and
"modernize" management. Words that hide the true objective: it is not
about reducing costs, but about directing them to those who always
profit from capitalism, the dominant class, especially the financial sector.

The exorbitant interest rates that make life expensive and harm the
country's real economy are not being reduced. Large economic groups
remain tax-exempt, while pressure is being put on the sale of public
companies. These government expenditures are paid for with what is
collected, that is, with what is produced, directly or indirectly, by
the working class.

They demand cuts to Bolsa Família (a social welfare program), social
programs, the SUS (a public healthcare system), and education. In this
case, also to public servants themselves. The supposed savings obtained
with these cuts are not true savings, but a redirection of resources to
pay off the internal debt, benefiting, above all, the financial market.

It is important to highlight that the main force behind this reform in
Congress is the "Faria Lima" (a financial district in São Paulo) and its
allies. Furthermore, another major objective is added to this project:
political control over public servants, not by society, but by the
governments in power. Mayors, deputies, and governors have a huge
interest in ending job security for civil servants, so they can appoint
and dismiss whomever they want in the public service.

Main points of the Administrative Reform:

Performance Management Program
This is a process that implies salary reduction, the end of career
progression, and the elimination of rights such as seniority bonuses and
other benefits. Initial salaries would be reduced, and resources
allocated to those who make education, health, and other public services
function would be cut. These funds would not return to social areas but
would be channeled to the financial sector.

Furthermore, the proposal applies a typical neoliberal principle to the
public service: replacing the workday with goals, reinforcing
meritocracy and competition. This paves the way for longer workdays
without overtime pay or compensation.

Progression would depend on subjective evaluations made by managers,
opening loopholes for persecution and manipulation. Public service exams
are also weakened, institutionalizing precarious hiring practices.

Stability in the public service is not an individual privilege, but a
guarantee that the public servant is accountable to society-and not to
the government in power. This change benefits the governments in power,
which will be able to persecute unions and dismiss civil servants who do
not align with their policies.

Application of Temporary Contracts
One of the main measures is the regulation and expansion of temporary
contracts, via the CLT (Consolidation of Labor Laws). The rapporteur
proposes a unified national competitive examination for the three levels
of government, facilitating the hiring of temporary workers.
Furthermore, the term of these contracts can reach 10 years, without job
security or career advancement plans.

Deepening Privatization and Outsourcing
Under the argument of "efficiency" in public service, heads and managers
will be able to expand outsourcing and Public-Private Partnerships
(PPPs), mechanisms that, in practice, transfer public money to the
private sector.

The administrative reform is bad for civil servants and terrible for the
population. Its true objective is to reduce spending on public services
to guarantee resources for the fraudulent public debt system and
maintain tax benefits for large businesses, which fail to pay more than
R$ 800 billion per year to the public coffers.

Even though the formal initiative for this reform comes from Congress,
the fact that the federal government defended the fiscal framework and
maintained exemptions for various economic groups shows how political
disputes tend to always favor the dominant class. Rights are won and
maintained through struggle, not through political favors.

Another chapter in the class war in Brazil: on one side, the Lula
government, the financial system, and the National Congress; on the
other, public servants and the majority of society that depends on
public services.

As specificist anarchists, organized in the CAB, we participate in this
class struggle to overcome capitalism and defend a public service geared
towards the needs of the population, and not of capital. Thus, we seek
to tactically expand the public sphere, a space where the organized
people can create and control public policies that improve their living
conditions and advance popular power.

https://cabanarquista.com.br/reforma-administrativa-um-ataque-do-governo-lula-do-congresso-nacional-e-do-mercado-financeiro-as-trabalhadoras-e-aos-trabalhadores-do-setor-publico/
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