Greve - Antony Mueller citado no Rio Times

Strikes End Except for Federal Police

August 28, 2012 | Filed underFront Page,Politics | Posted by Lucy Jordan

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter
"... At a time when Brazil’s economy has slowed significantly there is little enthusiasm in government for broad wage hikes, especially for a public sector that many say is too large, and already enjoys significantly more benefits and job security than the private sector.
“Any agreement should include a reform of the public sector,” said Anthony Mueller, a professor of economics at the Federal University of Sergipe. “The Brazilian public sector must be drastically reduced in order to save expenditure.”
With her own deadline looming on Friday, when President Rousseff must set the 2013 federal budget, some say that miscalculations on both sides have escalated a wage dispute into the greatest challenge that Rousseff’s nineteen-month old presidency has yet faced.
“The government made the error of not rapidly and forcefully responding to the demands,” said Professor Mueller. “The leaders of the strike miscalculated the resolve of the government to keep the budget deficit down.”
“In the end both sides lost,” he added. “Yet most of all it was Brazil that lost.”
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