In May 2017, Brazil's unions united in Brasilia, marched against coup President Michel Temers' labor reforms and were brutally attacked by the police. I filmed it and am shocked to learn that Guilherme Boulos' millionaire financier Walfrido Warde blames unions for the reforms.
In a 2020 Op Ed, Warde, the corporate lawyer/president of NED-connected Instituto IREE accusing the union movement of standing by, perplexed and inert as the [post labor reform] number of people with signed work cards shrunk, replaced by freelancers cartacapital.com.br/artigo/a-esque…
He goes on to accuse the big Union Federations - the implication is that he's talking about the CUT - of turning their backs on gig economy app drivers. He wrote this 5 years after CUT helped form the first Uber drivers union in Brazil. mariaterezamagrani.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/41813…
5 years after the Parana Governor Beto Richa ordered police to fire thousands of rubber bullets at striking, mainly woman public school teachers in Curitiba, hospitalizing 213, this millionaire accuses unions of being "toothless, almost unnecessary". educacao.uol.com.br/noticias/agenc…
Walfredo Warde, is an old schoolmate of PSOL's Guilherme Boulos, from the prestigious USP philosophy department. He served as the primary intermediary between Boulos and the conservative São Paulo business community during the 2020 SP mayoral elections.vejasp.abril.com.br/cidades/walfri…
Warde's Instituto IREE (Institute for Reform of Relations between the State and Businesses) has a mission of "promoting democratic and pluralisitic debate to improve the interaction between the public and private sectors in Brazil."iree.org.br
On March 31, 2021, a post on their website announced: IREE has the honor of announcing a partnership with Global Americans, the North American think-tank that is dedicated to promoting analysis and debates on relevant issues in the Americans in a Global context. 
Grayzone and others have written extensively on the financial and ideological relationship between NED and Global Americans, which is a huge supporter of coup-mongering OAS President Luis Almagro. thegrayzone.com/2018/06/19/ned…
So basically, a NED connected bourgeois intellectual attacks latin american organized labor "from the left". Where have we seen that film before?
It would be refreshing to see honest criticism of the Brazilian union movement that accounts for massive job loss from computerization/robots and the fact that their finances were destroyed after Temer's 2017 labor reforms. Rich people blaming them for these issues is ridiculous.
This Boulos/IREE/Warde partnership seems to indicate that PSOL-SP now believes concessions to the bourgeoisie are necessary to take power. This center-left tactic makes sense in a bourgeois democracy but makes it hard for PSOL to criticize other left parties for doing the same.
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