Sindicalismo pós-covid: a atuação do movimento sindical brasileiro na pandemia e os desafios para a recomposição dos repertórios de ação coletiva

Abstract

The rapid spread and lethality of the Sars-COV-2 virus that has been ravaging the world since 2019 has been producing not only of sanitary order, but has also entailed social, political, cultural, and mainly economic repercussions that have affected the structure and forms of action of the Brazilian trade union movement. In this sense, the present work conducts a research of exploratory nature, based on the method of deductive and systematic interpretation of statistical, sociological and legal data and through the review of the relevant literature, compelling information that helps to unravel the Brazilian trade union landscape in recent years, especially in view of the impacts of the productive restructuring caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. From this, the actions of the unions during the health crisis were examined in an attempt to identify the possibilities of resignification of the instruments of action that can be adopted in contemporary times. The results showed that, despite the union decline in the decades leading up to the pandemic, union organizations have adaptability and have remained active during the pandemic context. In addition, the trade unions sought in the crisis the possibilities of reinvention and reaffirmation of their legitimacy as an institution of representation and protection of the working class, mainly through the expansion of fight repertoires and the expansion of the use of electronic and digital procedures. Based on this, it was clear that it is possible for the trade union movement to resume its combative, hegemonic and emancipatory character. To this end, it is crucial that it take a transformative role, advancing the process through the reformulation of the movement in a way that makes it more dynamic, more democratic, less bureaucratic.