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About 3,500 Employees Still Haven’t Received Compensation Since the Closure of the Shipyard in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro
An Endless Drama, this is what can be called the current situation of the employees of the Mauá shipyard in Niterói in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro.
Hundreds of former employees of the Shipyard, who were dismissed more than four years ago, held a peaceful protest at the company’s entrance last Wednesday, August 9.
The protest organized by former employees aimed to draw attention to the non-payment of compensations since the Mauá Shipyard was closed in 2015 and has not paid what it owed to about 3,500 dismissed employees. The company is undergoing a judicial recovery process and has accumulated debts of R$ 1.5 billion.
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Recycling trucks with artificial intelligence begin photographing household waste, identify errors in bins, send warnings to residents, and turn common disposal into a debate about surveillance.
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According to Maria de Lourdes, a former employee, the situation among the workers in Niterói is chaotic, “Many former employees have committed suicide due to debts, there are workers who had to return their financed cars and homes, another 85 former employees were imprisoned for not paying child support, and even those who don’t have R$ 4.00 to pay for transport to attend this protest are starving,” she declared.
The premises of the Shipyard are currently being degraded due to lack of maintenance and there are three unfinished tankers on the dock that have been there for over three years, due to the cancellation of the contract with Transpetro.
The Owners
The Mauá Shipyard in Niterói was once one of the largest in the country and employed almost 10,000 people at the peak of Brazilian shipbuilding; the company belongs to the Sinergy group, which is also the owner of another company in judicial recovery, the airline Avianca, German Efromovich.
The shipyard is the oldest in the country, and its land was acquired by Baron de Mauá in 1846, and just before its closure, it delivered important works such as the P50, P54, and the gas platform Mexilhão.
A public hearing is scheduled for August 15 to discuss the resumption of works at the Mauá shipyard and the unpaid compensations to former employees.
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