The PDT presidential candidate, Ciro Gomes, was today (19) in Osasco (SP), where he spoke with employees of three of the companies that operate in the former land of the Brazilian Railway Material Company (Cobrasma). The location was symbolically chosen to highlight one of the proposals of the former governor of Ceará: the need to establish a new pact between governments, entrepreneurs and workers to re-industrialize the country.
“I chose this place because it is symbolic of the problem in Brazil. Here, there was a large Brazilian company that, at its height, employed 12,000 people. Today, you are around 600 people”, commented Ciro Gomes when speaking to employees of Comercial Brasileira de Ferro e Aço (CBFA), one of the companies that operate in part of the huge land belonging to the former Cobrasma.
Inaugurated in 1944, Cobrasma was the first manufacturer of steel railway equipment in Brazil. Afterwards, it started to produce parts for the automobile industry and Petrobras and was qualified to manufacture equipment for the production of nuclear energy. In 1998, it closed its activities. Cobrasma’s own data indicate that the maximum number of employees, 6,833, was registered in 1964, from when it began to decline.
“People have lost the opportunity to defend their families with decent wages, welfare, retirement, adding to [aos atuais] almost 10 million Brazilians who are unemployed and another 5 million discouraged who have given up looking for a job”, added the candidate, referring to disclosed data by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
For the candidate, who defends that industrial policy should be the center of any national development project, the electoral campaign is the moment for candidates to present solutions to the problems that the country faces, such as the poor quality of education and low growth. economic.
“A campaign should not be an exchange of insults, a fight, but an occasion for each candidate to present a diagnosis of what is happening in Brazil. About why so many people are unemployed. Why does the minimum wage currently have the worst purchasing power in the last 20 years and why has inflation returned heavily to food? Why the education of the worker’s child does not prepare him for the increasingly difficult dispute of the modern job vacancy. This is the political occasion.”
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