Braços Cruzados, Máquinas Paradas

São Paulo, May 1978. Three boards compete for the leadership of the Metalworkers' Union of São Paulo, the largest in Latin America, with 300,000 associate workers, and presided over by a platoon since the military coup of 1964. In the midst of the electoral campaign Union, the first workers' strikes that would change the country began. Arms Crossed Machines Paradas reveals, in an engaging narrative, how the Brazilian trade union structure, of fascist inspiration.