Brazil: Protests against 6×1
Across Brazil there were several mobilizations against the 6×1 – the constitutionally set working week of 44 hours within six days. Around 30 Brazilian cities had their streets occupied by the #FimdaEscala6x1 demonstrations on the nation-wide action day on Friday, November 15.
The Workers League had issued a call:
Around 500 demonstrators held a rally in the center of Brasília against the 6×1. Among the participants were students, workers, activists, organizations, parties and unions, who staged the demonstration and handed out leaflets to passers-by.
Activists and students meet in the anti-6×1 manifestation in Campina Grande, Paraíba. Protesters made speeches demanding better working conditions, while explanatory pamphlets were distributed about the PEC.
More than 300 people, including activists, youth and workers, gathered in the city center of Londrina, to protest for the end of the 6×1 scale. The demonstration, which lasted about one hour, marched through important shopping stores and shopping centers, raising support from workers. The act began at the city’s famous monument, where the protesters gathered and made interventions and reports about life on the 6×1 scale, followed by slogans.
Workers took the streets of São Paulo, as well, to protest for the end of the 6×1 scale. Workers’ League activists were present at the demonstration. Thousands of people marched the Av. Paulista.
The agenda against the exhausting 6×1 work scale, which took thousands of people to the streets across the country, also mobilized dozens of students, teachers, social movements and workers to go to the streets of Petrolina and Juazeiro, expressing repudiation of the working conditions to which the Brazilian people have been submitted.
Activists, workers, students, and democrats in general starred in a major 6×1 scale repudiation in Manaus. The protesters, to the hundreds, marched on Avenida Autaz Mirim, in the east of Manaus. About 300 people were counted for the act that took the streets with posters, banners and a sound car, while leaflets were distributed to drivers and traders around, receiving support from the local population.
More than 600 people gathered in downtown Curitiba on November 15 to demand the end of the strenuous 6×1 work scale. The protesters marched the streets of the center of the capital of Paraná, one of the main commercial centers of the city.
All images and videos were taken from A Nova Democracia.
