The collective negotiations carried out in 2013 mostly led to wage increases above inflation, revealed the Inter Trade Union Department of Statistics and Socio-Economic Studies (Dieese) in its traditional annual report, published on Tuesday, April 2. But last year’s vintage was better – the best in 10 years. The negotiations signed in the South – at sectoral rather than company level – and those in the second semester were the most fruitful.
671 collective negotiations analyzed. The institute, created in 1955 by Brazilian union federations in order to “support workers’ claims,” relies on the analysis of 671 collective negotiations in manufacturing, trade and services across the country. “7 percent matched inflation and 6 percent of insufficient raises” to reach this level, Dieese says. The real average was increase was 1.25 percent. 86.9 percent of collective negotiations last year in Brazil led to wage increases higher...
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