Recentes estratégias da ação sindical rural em Alagoas

Abstract

This paper analyzes the recent strategies of union activity in rural Alagoas notably from the Federation of Agricultural Workers of Alagoas – FETAG-AL - the period that includes the last two administrations (2006-2013). The survey was produced through the specialized bibliography, documents the federation itself, collective conventions of rural workers, journals, newspapers, magazines and thematic interviews drawn from specialized sites on the subject. From this, we demonstrate the emergence and structure of rural unionism in Brazil and in Alagoas justifying their union practices over the decades. Here is how the various government programs to encourage the sugarcane sector, as Proálcool, influence on union practices. Concomitantly reported the dismantling of this structure by state and the one hand mills and distilleries had to reshape the face of productive restructuring, on the other hand, union action suffered a setback in its representation to rural workers against neoliberal policies and relaxation of labor laws. The consolidation of new perspectives and new productive morphology at work at the beginning of the XXI century, leads us to realize that union action in the state of Alagoas has undergone considerable structural change. The FETAG-AL has turned to new demands emerging claim and representation as a family farming, rural housing and categories on the rise as young people, women and seniors. The Federation has organized courses, seminars, conferences and public demonstrations as a means of effecting their trade union action.