Tag: strike

Brazil’s Foreign Ministry Workers Go on Strike. Up to Four Months Pay Delays

Career officials of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, known as Itamaraty, in Brazil, have been ...

In Bahia, Brazil, Politicians Revenge Is Also Best Served Cold

Marco Prisco was getting tanned in the sunshine in the wonderful resort in Costa ...

In Bahia, Brazil, Politicians Revenge Is Also Best Served Cold

Marco Prisco was getting tanned in the sunshine in the wonderful resort in Costa ...

Unhappy, Striking Brazilian Civil Servants Get 16% Raise and Go Back to Work

In Brazil, last weekend (August 25 and 26) was the deadline for striking federal ...

Two Professors Comment on Strike that Has Shut Down for 2 Months Federal Universities in Brazil

On May 17, Brazilian Federal University professors launched a nationwide strike in an attempt ...

Three Weeks After It Started Federal Servants’ Strike in Brazil Continues to Expand

In Brazil, a strike that has already stopped classes in 51 federal institutions of ...

In Brazil, When Things Go Wrong They Just Blame the Press

Salvador, Bahia, commemoration event of the Holocaust organized by the Brazilian Jewish community in ...

Brazil Police Strike: For Bahia Governor It’s Damned If He Does, Damned If He Doesn’t

Legislative Assembly, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. About 200 military policemen are occupying the Assembly.  They ...

Brazil: After One Week and Over 100 Murders Still no End in Sight for Bahia’s Police Strike

Side street of a residential area of a city of Bahia.  Mountains of trash ...

Leaders of Police Rebellion in Brazil Use Women and Kids as Human Shields

Human shields: the same tactic used by Saddam Hussein during the US invasion of ...