Career
Leader, Metal Workers' Union, Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, since 1968; organized strike, then imprisoned, 1977; arrested, 1981; founder, president, Workers' Party (Central Unica dos Trabalhadores), Brasilia, since 1980.
Leader, Metal Workers' Union, Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, since 1968; organized strike, then imprisoned, 1977; arrested, 1981; founder, president, Workers' Party (Central Unica dos Trabalhadores), Brasilia, since 1980.
Candidate for president Workers' Party, 1989.