Samara Martins: And this is one of the biggest challenges for the popular movement, which is to make our people understand that, even in this contradiction we're in, in this degree of exploitation and oppression, the only thing that frees us is not our individual struggle.
Samara Martins: Us securing a bit more, or guaranteeing a place in the sun for ourselves.
If we're united, organized and conscious... We can do anything, including reducing working hours, including raising wages.
Samara Martins: Another example of this: I was there in Paraíba, and the Sim de Limpe of Paraíba, the urban cleaning workers, who are considered the lowest on the labor scale, they went on strike, staged a stoppage and ensured the end of the 6x1.
Samara Martins: They approved the 5x2 work schedule in urban cleaning in Paraíba.