Brazilian union funding is being questioned after the Ministry of Labor cleared out several ghost unions at the end of February. Hundreds of organizations are suspected of being created in order to receive union contributions – compulsorily deducted from wages –, which generate billions of real. In 2013, Brazil had over 15,000 unions, 5,000 for employers and 10,000 for employees.
4,000 pending requests. On February 27, the Ministry of Labor and Employment announced that “944 irregular requests for union registration” had been dismissed, for only 249 validated. This means that less than 20 percent of pending requests are accepted. They were analyzed by a special committee set up one year earlier, in March 2013. and these results are only temporary. In a year, only 1,300 requests were analyzed, out of more than 4,000 pending, the Ministry said. and this number is en
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