Daily Archives: March 28, 2011

Meritocracy is our method, IT supplier says

While most large IT suppliers scramble to deal with their public relations strategy around the protests of IT workers across the state of Sao Paulo, automation software  giant Totvs was keen to stress that its policy in terms of salary … Continue reading

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Interview: IT employers label strike “baseless”

The president of IT employers union Seprosp, Luigi Nese, tells IT Decisions about his perspective of the strike of sector professionals, which started today.

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To be or not to be: English is the question

Think of all the keywords you know from computer programming languages; if, then, else, print, run… all of them are English. But programming languages aside, why is English so important for the IT industry in Brazil?

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IT strike in São Paulo – your comments

So it’s happened. The São Paulo IT workers union Sindpd has exhausted all avenues for discussion with employers union Seprosp and decided that they are going on strike.

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Start the Week #4: IT strike gets underway

Featured in this Start the Week podcast of week commencing 28 March 2011: Mark Hillary and Angelica Mari from IT Decisions talk about the numerous events that took place last week in São Paulo, the dropping of the Englisoft program … Continue reading

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