Brazil: President Lula da Silva asks workers to reduce their claims and help businesses

z Inacio Lula da Silva, used his past as a union leader to urge workers from his country and elsewhere to abandon improvements to their working conditions during the crisis. “This is no time to ask for wage increases” he declared. “With the crisis, everyone looses out.” These declarations come in the middle of a debate between the country’s two largest unions, fighting about the way to face the economic situation. (Ref. 090391)

In late march,
President Lula da Silva used the International...