The revenue reform which the government intends to approve in June of 1992 in fact represents the handing over of social welfare and of accident insurance to banks and insurance brokerage firms. This alert comes from lawyer Annibal Fernandes who is an expert in welfare law as well as being an adviser to a number of trade unions. According to Fernandes, the government project plans to substitute the present system of contribution for a tax on cheques and other financial transactions. At a meeting of its national executive, CUT decided to start a campaign to impeach President Fernando Collor as well as to defend a discussion of an alternative form of government. Even though it is the same company, the workers of Toyota Brazil and Toyota Japan have many differences in the areas of salaries and work conditions.
Any system taken on over there has the participation of the workers.
In his conversation with the world president of Toyota, Sholchiro Toyota, Vincentinho spoke of the positive perspectives of Brazil despite the successive changing economic policies. Vincentinho also had the opportunity to visit Brazilians who are working in Japan and noted that all such Brazilians went there with a great disposition to work, but always for a defined period with plans to return to Brazil and live here. There are in the region of 130 to 150 thousand Brazilians in Japan. Even though this topic is likely to be polemical, it is expected that the affiliation will be approved at the plenary meeting. The metal workers approved affiliation to Fitim and the bank workers to Feit.