{{Short description|Brazilian politician (born 1959)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Luiz Marinho | image = Luiz Marinho. CDH - Comissão de Direitos Humanos e Legislação Participativa (cropped).jpg | caption = Marinho in 2023. | office = Minister of Labour | term_start = 1 January 2023 | term_end = | president = Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | predecessor = José Carlos Oliveira | term_start1 = 12 July 2005 | term_end1 = 29 March 2007 | president1 = Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | predecessor1 = Ricardo Berzoini | successor1 = Carlos Lupi | office2 = President of the Workers' Party of São Paulo | term_start2 = 8 May 2017 | predecessor2 = Emídio de Souza | office3 = Mayor of São Bernardo do Campo | term_start3 = 1 January 2009 | term_end3 = 1 January 2017 | 1blankname3 = {{nowrap|Vice Mayor}} | 1namedata3 = Frank Aguiar | predecessor3 = William Dib | successor3 = Orlando Morando | office4 = Minister of Social Security | term_start4 = 29 March 2007 | term_end4 = 3 June 2008 | president4 = Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | predecessor4 = Nelson Machado | successor4 = José Pimentel | birth_name = Luiz Marinho | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|5|20|df=y}} | birth_place = Cosmorama, SP, Brazil | party = PT (1980–present) | spouse = Nilza de Oliveira<ref name="marriage">{{cite web|url=http://www.terra.com.br/istoegente/125/reportagem/luiz_marinho.htm|title=O negociador implacável|publisher=IstoÉ Gente|first=Cesar|last=Guerrero|trans-title=The ruthless negotiator|date=17 December 2001|accessdate=30 April 2018}}</ref> | profession = Unionist }} '''Luiz Marinho''' (born 20 May 1959 in Cosmorama) is a Brazilian politician and unionist. He was minister of Labor and Employment<ref>{{cite web|url=http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI584485-EI1194,00-Luiz+Marinho+sera+o+novo+ministro+do+Trabalho.html|title=Luiz Marinho será o novo ministro do Trabalho|publisher=Terra|language=pt|trans-title=Luiz Marinho will be the new minister of Labor|date=8 July 2005|accessdate=30 April 2018}}</ref> and minister of Social Security<ref>{{cite web|url=https://extra.globo.com/noticias/brasil/pdt-fica-com-ministerio-do-trabalho-luiz-marinho-assumira-previdencia-social-733201.html|title=PDT fica com Ministério do Trabalho e Luiz Marinho assumirá a Previdência Social|publisher=Extra|language=pt|trans-title=PDT keeps Ministry of Labor and Luiz Marinho will assume Social Security|date=28 March 2007|accessdate=30 April 2018}}</ref> in the government of president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He also was mayor of São Bernardo do Campo between 2009 and 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eleicoes.uol.com.br/2008/ultnot/2008/10/26/ult6008u427.jhtm|title=Apoiado por Lula, o ex-ministro Luiz Marinho (PT) é o novo prefeito de São Bernardo|publisher=Uol|language=pt|trans-title=Supported by Lula, former minister Luiz Marinho (PT) is the new mayor of São Bernardo|date=26 October 2008|accessdate=30 April 2018}}</ref>
==Biography== Marinho is married to Nilza de Oliveira<ref name="marriage"/> and is the father of two children. He has a Bachelor of Law degree and was a metalworker in the 1970s, when met Lula da Silva. The first and only register in his work permit is from July 1978, when he was hired to work in the painting sector of Volkswagen in São Bernardo do Campo, where he also began his unionist career as member of the Internal Commission of Accidente Prevention (CIPA).
==Awards== Among the public acknowledgments, Marinho collects the Highlight of the Year Award of 1999, granted by the magazine Livre Mercado.
Also in 1999, he was appointed by Time/CNN as one of the ''50 Latin American Leaders for the New Millennium'', because of his negotiations with Volkswagen, which avoided the dismissal of 10,000 workers.<ref name="marriage"/>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{cci}} * {{Facebook|LuizMarinhoPT}}
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