BBC Brasil – Luis Barrucho, 08/27/2012
Public workers across Brazil are currently involved in what is one of the largest industrial disputes in the country’s history, presenting a major challenge for President Dilma Rousseff.
Recently described as the world’s third most powerful woman by Forbes magazine, President Rousseff is finding plaudits from abroad do not necessarily make life easier at home.
As many as 400,000 federal officials from some 30 government departments and public bodies – half the total public workforce – have been staging strikes and protests.
