PAME (All Workers Militant Front) that represents the class trade union movement of Greece, we express our repudiation of the dismissals of the subway workers of São Paulo, due to the strike held in June 2014.

We are especially outraged because when the Judge Thiago Melosi Soria granted an injunction for the reinstatement that the Cia. do Metropolitano de São Paolo – Metrô failed to provide any hard evidence for their dismissal. Now, based on an arbitrary decision of an appeals judge, without any legal basis and based on a phoney security mandate the workers have been dismissed again. We condemn this act which disrespects the organization and struggle of the workers. We demand that the Brazilian authorities to stop attacking the right to strike and the free expression of workers in defence of their rights as well as the immediate reinstatement of workers dismissed by Cia. do Metropolitano de São Paulo – Metrô.