Unions finish voting today to assess support for the BC’s financial autonomy PEC

The unions representing Central Bank employees conclude this Tuesday, at 6pm (Brasília time), a joint online vote with the category to assess the staff’s support for the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) for budgetary and fiscal autonomy of the organ. Voting began last Tuesday, the 26th, and the results should be released on Wednesday morning. The BC had 3,276 active employees in December 2023, but according to the Confederation of Workers in the Federal Public Service (Condsef), with retirees and pensioners, the number of voters could reach 10 thousand.

On Monday, the National Association of Central Bank Analysts (ANBCB), which represents around 600 analysts at the institution, most of whom are active, released a survey with the participation of more than 80% of its members which shows that the majority ( 74%) agree with contributions to improve the PEC. Another 6% said they were in favor of the text as it stands today and 18% said they were against the PEC, regardless of changes.

It was the first time that the ANBCB stated that it believed, based on research, that the proposal being processed in the Senate could be the solution to enhance the value of the BC and the careers of its employees, considered by them to be a structural problem and a risk to the mission. of the institution. BC employees, in turn, are represented by two other entities, the National Union of BC Employees (Sinal) and the National Union of BC Technicians (SintBacen), which voted against the PEC, regardless of changes.

“Sinal’s indication was ‘against PEC 65’. But Sinal will follow the result of the electronic vote, whatever it may be,” said the union’s president, Fábio Faiad.

In general terms, the PEC foresees that the BC would no longer be part of the General Budget of the Union (OGU) when it transformed from an autarchy to a public company, starting to finance itself with revenues from “seigneurship”. The employees, in turn, would no longer be civil servants and would become CLT holders, but the project’s rapporteur, senator Plínio Valério (PSDB-AM), has already committed to guaranteeing the stability of the agency’s employees in his text.

As shown by the Broadcast (Grupo Estado’s real-time news system), the BC is also trying to come up with a complementary law proposal to regulate the PEC precisely to reduce additional resistance from civil servants.

But, according to Edison Cardoni, a retired BC analyst and legal director of the Confederation of Workers in the Federal Public Service (Condsef), which has political collaboration with the monetary authority’s unions, the board cannot guarantee that the PEC or the complementary law that will the regulations will have the adjustments considered necessary for the servers. “We know how projects enter Congress, but we don’t know how they leave.”