“What is desirable now is to reduce it to 35 hours. After, We’ll soon see if it makes sense to move to a four-day week, but that cannot mean working two more hours a day. The perspective always has to be to reduce the daily working hours”, she argues.
This wouldn’t be the last time we see him, but for now, there’s no time to waste. Teachers’ unions, industrialists, commercial workers, everyone begins to see the Luminous Fountain in the background. Facing the CGTP stage, and in one of the many trailers selling steaks, the report from Renaissance crosses paths with Ricardo Simões.
Unionized, it has celebrated Labor Day for several decades, but this year Ricardo highlights a different theme – defending peace, particularly in the Middle East.
“We have to move away from this stupid logic of nationalism and think that supporting the workers in Palestine is a secondary thing. We have a direct connection with what is happening, especially in the global south. We have to ensure that others also have what we have”, he highlights.