Several new collective agreements have been approved in the Brazilian phone industry, either at federal level or only in the State of São Paulo, in November and December 2013. There is no wage increase below 5 percent. The talks with GVT, a subsidiary of the French multinational, Vivendi, failed.
The different collective agreements were negotiated one company at a time by the telecom workers’ union of the State of São Paulo (Sintetel), affiliated with Força sindical, when the agreement only covers that State. This union, created in 1942, represents nearly 250,000 employees in the State across the different businesses in the sector. At federal level, some agreements were negotiated by the national telecom workers’ federation (Fenattel), which claims that it gathers the 3 main unions in
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