At the beginning of March, the Lula government sent a Complementary Bill
(PLP) to Congress that regulates the work of app drivers who transport
people with 4-wheel vehicles. PLP 12/2024 is a farce, as it is being
presented as an achievement for workers without being so. It is a
setback for the category and also a cruel laboratory in which
governments and employers are experimenting with new ways to further
exploit the entire working class. To overcome this, there is no point in
exchanging politician A for politician B, but building a process of
organizing the category at the base. Direct action by workers can defeat
any attack on their rights and achieve real gains.
Why is PLP 12/2024 bad?
The PLP places app drivers in a new category: platformed autonomous.
This is an aberration that places more duties on the worker, does not
guarantee relevant rights and also protects platforms from labor lawsuits.
The minimum wage is the first to die in this story. Under the project,
the worker will be able to work up to 12 hours per application and will
receive 32 reais per hour. But be careful, they will only count the
hours you are running. The waiting time during which the worker is
available will not be counted. Imagine if the supermarket paid the
cashiers only for the hours they were serving the customer, imagine if
the gas station attendants were only paid for the time they were filling
up the cars. It would be absurd. However, that is what is stated.
Of the 32 reais, only 8 will be allocated to the worker's direct
remuneration, while the rest will be allocated to vehicle maintenance
and fuel costs. Contradictorily, what was supposed to be the salary
floor will be the salary ceiling per account that will allow platforms
to keep the value of races as close as possible to these numbers through
their algorithm.
Even the calculation for this remuneration should be linked to fuel
prices, but this is not what we have. The main input for drivers can
rise so much that there will be no correspondence with their
remuneration. In other words, if the cost rises suddenly, as is common
with changes in fuel prices, the worker may have to pay to work.
If many workers questioned the CLT, the business was much more
precarious here. It's the worst of both worlds. Neither CLT nor
informal: work until you feel sick.
Marked cards, it couldn't be any different.
A corn seed makes a corn stalk. A seat of beans will make a beanstalk. A
Tripartite Working Group of bosses (UBER/99), government (Lula) and sold
trade unions will not do anything good for the worker. In other words,
this PLP was created and designed to defend the interests of those who
exploit and not those who work. Those who were there lying that they
represented the interests of workers are nothing more than trade unions
that represent the interests of governments and employers! Let's name
it: Central dos Sindicatos Brasileiros (CSB), Central dos Trabalhadores
do Brasil (CTB), Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT), Força Sindical
(FS), Nova Central Sindical de Trabalhadores (NCST) and the General
Union of Workers (UGT).
Not surprisingly, the bill regulates the category's official union
representation. Something that without a doubt between these centrals is
being fought tooth and nail behind the union charter to guarantee their
bureaucratic structure.
Now, we can't throw out the bath water with the boy in it. The union is
nothing more or less than organized workers fighting for their rights.
We often have it by other names: Associations, Union, League,
Organization. The problem is that since 1931, the Brazilian people have
suffered from a model of unionism controlled by the State, where it is
the Ministry of Labor that recognizes which union will represent which
category on which territorial basis. This is called union unity,
something that only exists in a few countries in the world. That's why
unions are increasingly bureaucratized and trapped in their ivory tower.
Therefore, we agree with the workers' revolt against these official
unions, generally affiliated with the National Federation of Application
Drivers' Unions (FENASMAPP). However, we affirm without a doubt that
another unionism is possible and that whether it is under the name of an
association, union or union, we must organize ourselves in our workplace
with autonomy and in alliance with the entire working class.
Overcoming the project from both political sides
In response to the terrible PLP 12/2024, parliamentarians such as:
Daniel Agrobom - PL/GO, Silvia Waiãpi - PL/AP, Dayany Bittencourt -
UNIÃO/CE, Captain Alden - PL/BA, Delegado Caveira - PL/PA, Felipe Saliba
- PRD/MG, proposed PL 536/2024.
Proposing a better PLP than that of the Lula government should not be a
criterion, as this is very easy. This is just the classic opposition
dynamic of politicians in their game of musical chairs.
Instead of proposing regulations per hour worked, this PLP proposes per
km driven and active minutes after acceptance of the ride, but without a
minimum fare for rides. The problem of the time that workers are
available waiting for a race continues. Furthermore, the minimum
remuneration of 1.80 per km driven and 0.40 per minute running is not
enough to guarantee dignity for the category.
This political side suffers from the same problem as the other side: its
interests come first than the interests of workers. Don't doubt that
this is like a Beetle engine, which only has a starter. After all, it is
not in the path of these parliamentarians to be alongside workers in
their confrontations, strikes, blockades and stoppages. Their
participation is always selective and strategic to guarantee their power
projects. So much so that the Union party, which signed this project,
received positions from the Lula government. And the PL always puts on
an opposition show, but when it enters the government it reproduces the
same practices as the colonels.
Stop PLP 12/2024 and build another regulation from the ground up!
It is the duty of the working class to participate in the national
mobilization on April 2nd for the end of PLP 12/2024. However, we cannot
give a platform to opportunist politicians, such as the PL, UNIÃO and
PRD groups, who have never been on the side of the workers and want more
than anything to project themselves.
It is important that these mobilizations produce another way for the
category to organize itself autonomously and move towards a major
general strike of transport workers. It is only when it reaches into
their pockets that the employer class and the government will give up
the rights of the people they are stealing from.
Therefore, we claim:
Real earnings for application workers.
Hold companies responsible for costs that are solely on the shoulders of
drivers.
Security for workers against the arbitrary control of platforms that
disconnect them without even the right to defend themselves.
Guarantee of a decent working day that does not harm your health, social
life or put your life at risk.
Quality pension security.
End of union unity through the free association of workers without State
supervision.
Unite all workers in the transport sector in a federation of autonomous
unions!
To combat opportunists on the left and right, we call on app drivers to
organize at the FOB to build autonomous unions in the transport sector
throughout Brazil. Without depending on party politicians or
businesspeople. Without depending on even 1 cent of union tax or union
charter from the government.
These unions must organize themselves in the localities, at the base,
building a process from the bottom up. Until we reach the point of
building an Autonomous Federation of Transport Workers in Brazil.
Involving not only app drivers, but all workers who transport people and
goods in this country, whether by motorcycle, car or truck.
Without making cabinet agreements, this movement will force negotiations
through direct action by the category, bringing much more tangible
results than these ghost federations.
Access and fill out the form at strugglefob.org/organize-se! We have a
big job to do.
BAR THE PLP 12/2024!
BUILD AN APPLICATION DRIVERS REGULATION FROM THE BASE!
ORGANIZE A GENERAL STRIKE IN THE TRANSPORT SECTOR TO TAKE AWAY RIGHTS
AND REAL GAINS!
https://lutafob.org/nao-a-plp-12-2024-organizar-a-base-com-autonomia-e-conquistar-ganhos-reais-para-os-trabalhadores-de-aplicativo/
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(PLP) to Congress that regulates the work of app drivers who transport
people with 4-wheel vehicles. PLP 12/2024 is a farce, as it is being
presented as an achievement for workers without being so. It is a
setback for the category and also a cruel laboratory in which
governments and employers are experimenting with new ways to further
exploit the entire working class. To overcome this, there is no point in
exchanging politician A for politician B, but building a process of
organizing the category at the base. Direct action by workers can defeat
any attack on their rights and achieve real gains.
Why is PLP 12/2024 bad?
The PLP places app drivers in a new category: platformed autonomous.
This is an aberration that places more duties on the worker, does not
guarantee relevant rights and also protects platforms from labor lawsuits.
The minimum wage is the first to die in this story. Under the project,
the worker will be able to work up to 12 hours per application and will
receive 32 reais per hour. But be careful, they will only count the
hours you are running. The waiting time during which the worker is
available will not be counted. Imagine if the supermarket paid the
cashiers only for the hours they were serving the customer, imagine if
the gas station attendants were only paid for the time they were filling
up the cars. It would be absurd. However, that is what is stated.
Of the 32 reais, only 8 will be allocated to the worker's direct
remuneration, while the rest will be allocated to vehicle maintenance
and fuel costs. Contradictorily, what was supposed to be the salary
floor will be the salary ceiling per account that will allow platforms
to keep the value of races as close as possible to these numbers through
their algorithm.
Even the calculation for this remuneration should be linked to fuel
prices, but this is not what we have. The main input for drivers can
rise so much that there will be no correspondence with their
remuneration. In other words, if the cost rises suddenly, as is common
with changes in fuel prices, the worker may have to pay to work.
If many workers questioned the CLT, the business was much more
precarious here. It's the worst of both worlds. Neither CLT nor
informal: work until you feel sick.
Marked cards, it couldn't be any different.
A corn seed makes a corn stalk. A seat of beans will make a beanstalk. A
Tripartite Working Group of bosses (UBER/99), government (Lula) and sold
trade unions will not do anything good for the worker. In other words,
this PLP was created and designed to defend the interests of those who
exploit and not those who work. Those who were there lying that they
represented the interests of workers are nothing more than trade unions
that represent the interests of governments and employers! Let's name
it: Central dos Sindicatos Brasileiros (CSB), Central dos Trabalhadores
do Brasil (CTB), Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT), Força Sindical
(FS), Nova Central Sindical de Trabalhadores (NCST) and the General
Union of Workers (UGT).
Not surprisingly, the bill regulates the category's official union
representation. Something that without a doubt between these centrals is
being fought tooth and nail behind the union charter to guarantee their
bureaucratic structure.
Now, we can't throw out the bath water with the boy in it. The union is
nothing more or less than organized workers fighting for their rights.
We often have it by other names: Associations, Union, League,
Organization. The problem is that since 1931, the Brazilian people have
suffered from a model of unionism controlled by the State, where it is
the Ministry of Labor that recognizes which union will represent which
category on which territorial basis. This is called union unity,
something that only exists in a few countries in the world. That's why
unions are increasingly bureaucratized and trapped in their ivory tower.
Therefore, we agree with the workers' revolt against these official
unions, generally affiliated with the National Federation of Application
Drivers' Unions (FENASMAPP). However, we affirm without a doubt that
another unionism is possible and that whether it is under the name of an
association, union or union, we must organize ourselves in our workplace
with autonomy and in alliance with the entire working class.
Overcoming the project from both political sides
In response to the terrible PLP 12/2024, parliamentarians such as:
Daniel Agrobom - PL/GO, Silvia Waiãpi - PL/AP, Dayany Bittencourt -
UNIÃO/CE, Captain Alden - PL/BA, Delegado Caveira - PL/PA, Felipe Saliba
- PRD/MG, proposed PL 536/2024.
Proposing a better PLP than that of the Lula government should not be a
criterion, as this is very easy. This is just the classic opposition
dynamic of politicians in their game of musical chairs.
Instead of proposing regulations per hour worked, this PLP proposes per
km driven and active minutes after acceptance of the ride, but without a
minimum fare for rides. The problem of the time that workers are
available waiting for a race continues. Furthermore, the minimum
remuneration of 1.80 per km driven and 0.40 per minute running is not
enough to guarantee dignity for the category.
This political side suffers from the same problem as the other side: its
interests come first than the interests of workers. Don't doubt that
this is like a Beetle engine, which only has a starter. After all, it is
not in the path of these parliamentarians to be alongside workers in
their confrontations, strikes, blockades and stoppages. Their
participation is always selective and strategic to guarantee their power
projects. So much so that the Union party, which signed this project,
received positions from the Lula government. And the PL always puts on
an opposition show, but when it enters the government it reproduces the
same practices as the colonels.
Stop PLP 12/2024 and build another regulation from the ground up!
It is the duty of the working class to participate in the national
mobilization on April 2nd for the end of PLP 12/2024. However, we cannot
give a platform to opportunist politicians, such as the PL, UNIÃO and
PRD groups, who have never been on the side of the workers and want more
than anything to project themselves.
It is important that these mobilizations produce another way for the
category to organize itself autonomously and move towards a major
general strike of transport workers. It is only when it reaches into
their pockets that the employer class and the government will give up
the rights of the people they are stealing from.
Therefore, we claim:
Real earnings for application workers.
Hold companies responsible for costs that are solely on the shoulders of
drivers.
Security for workers against the arbitrary control of platforms that
disconnect them without even the right to defend themselves.
Guarantee of a decent working day that does not harm your health, social
life or put your life at risk.
Quality pension security.
End of union unity through the free association of workers without State
supervision.
Unite all workers in the transport sector in a federation of autonomous
unions!
To combat opportunists on the left and right, we call on app drivers to
organize at the FOB to build autonomous unions in the transport sector
throughout Brazil. Without depending on party politicians or
businesspeople. Without depending on even 1 cent of union tax or union
charter from the government.
These unions must organize themselves in the localities, at the base,
building a process from the bottom up. Until we reach the point of
building an Autonomous Federation of Transport Workers in Brazil.
Involving not only app drivers, but all workers who transport people and
goods in this country, whether by motorcycle, car or truck.
Without making cabinet agreements, this movement will force negotiations
through direct action by the category, bringing much more tangible
results than these ghost federations.
Access and fill out the form at strugglefob.org/organize-se! We have a
big job to do.
BAR THE PLP 12/2024!
BUILD AN APPLICATION DRIVERS REGULATION FROM THE BASE!
ORGANIZE A GENERAL STRIKE IN THE TRANSPORT SECTOR TO TAKE AWAY RIGHTS
AND REAL GAINS!
https://lutafob.org/nao-a-plp-12-2024-organizar-a-base-com-autonomia-e-conquistar-ganhos-reais-para-os-trabalhadores-de-aplicativo/
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