The Scania factory heralded the formation of this coalition. By late 1978,Lula was floating the idea of creating a new political party, the Workers’ Party. This was to be the party not just of trade unionists, however. Lula insisted that it should be a party for all wage earners and the poor in general. Here the attempts of union leaders to organize a political platform began to coalesce with the marry social movements that were springing up. On August 18, 1979, a meeting was held in Sao Paulo to discuss the formation of the Workers’ Party, which brought together former opposition politicians, union leaders, students, intellectuals, and people representing one hundred diverse social movements that had begun to organize in the 1970s across Brazil. The Workers’ Party ,launched at the Sao Judas Tadeo restaurant in Sao Bernardo in October 1979, would come to represent all these diverse groups.