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The Brazilian Confederation of Financial Sector Workers

“Bank Workers’ Organisation in Braziland

Communication Practices”

Carlos Cordeiro, president of Contraf-CUT and UNI Américas Finance

Nyon - June, 2012

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Fragmented: one union for each professional or occupational group, organised in one town/city or region;

Vertical organisation: unions can be affiliated to regional/state federations or national confederations organised in the same sector;

Horizontal: union can be affiliated to national trade union federations (Main federations: CUT, FS, CTB, CGTB, NCST);

Compulsory Funding: union budget is composed by a union tax (one-day-a-year mandatory discount of each formal worker)

Trade Union Framework in Brazil

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CUT

CONTRAF CNTSS CONTRACS CNM

8 regional/state federations

100 local unions

CNQ

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Bank Workers: the only sector nationally organised

90% of bank workers’ union are affiliated to Contraf/CUT

One single Annual Collective Agreement for all bank workers in the whole country

Individual banks have additional agreements to the main one

National collective bargaining and negotiations with individual banks led by Contraf/CUT (benchmark for other sectors and unions)

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Largest Banks / Organisation

FENABAN(National Federation

of Banks)

Banco do Brasil

CEF

Itaú Bradesco

Santander

HSBC

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Contraf Website(Benchmark for bank workers’ organisations)

- 1.3 million webpage visits in 2011

- 420 thousand single visitors

- 3.5 thousand visits a day

- 75 thousand visits in one single day (Bargaining Campaign)

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Contraf Publications OnlineInternational Campaigns

Campaign Newspapers for continental protests

(Portuguese and Spanish)

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Contraf Publications OnlineNational Campaigns

Banks don’t respect

workers – We want Decent Work! (2011)

Another kind of bank is

necessary – People

First! (2010)

Banks abuse! What about the Social Responsability? (2009)

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Contraf Publications OnlineNational Campaigns

Electronic & Printed Magazine – Victorious

National Campaign

Electronic Newspaper

for Gender Equality

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Contraf Publications OnlineSurveys & Partnerships

Surveys on banks performance and banking

employment

Costumers’ Rights Manual published in partnership

with a consumers’ organisation

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Online Activism“Bank Workers Union of Brasilia”

Online TV

Protest against dismissals

inside a bank branch

Follow the union

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Online Activism“Bank Workers Union of Brasilia”

Text Messaging

Union texts union leaders, officials, representatives or activists during strikes, protests and others.

Bank Workers vote for strike in Brasilia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2XF2PNn8YA

Bank workers stoppage for legal working hours (6 hours/day):http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MzSvuEaBYhA

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Online Activism“Bank Workers Union of Porto Alegre”

Historical Archive OnlinePartnership with University of Illinoy (USA)

Online & Phone Campaign against violence at the workplace

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Online Activism“Other local unions”

Radio Stations Online Electronic daily newsletter - Email

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www.contrafcut.org.br

Contact:Rua Líbero Badaró, 158 – 1º AndarSão Paulo/SP - Phone: 55 11 31072767Email: contrafcut@contrafcut.org.br