Processo de politização das enfermeiras em Alagoas e a requalificação dos espaços de representatividade (1980-1987)

Abstract

Historical documentary study that considers as objectives: a) Uncover the politicization process of Alagoas nurses within the Unified Movement of Health Workers in Alagoas in the 1980s; b) Analyze the details of this process in the requalification of the union organization of nurses in Alagoas. Methodological Course: historical-documentary approach study tending as cuts: Geographic, the municipality of Maceió – AL, where the headquarters of SINEAL is located; Temporal, the period between 1980 to 1987. The direct sources are the catalogs and files of the Alagoas Public Archive, the SINEAL and, mainly, two journals written at that time archived in the Museum of a communication conglomerate. To analyze and interpret the data, we proceed to analyze the internal and external criticism of the two documents, triangulating them as a theoretical reference, the SINEAL sources and the scientific literature. Jacques Lagroye's theoretical framework allows for an adequate discussion of two aspects through his conceptions of politicization, political movement and requalification of social spaces. Ethical principles: The aforementioned political agents are guaranteed and respected, without the exhibition of confidential documents, and care is implemented for the handling and conservation of historical documents. Results: The workbooks and other documents were analyzed and contextualized and allowed to verify that, at the beginning of the 1980s, the generic union for the various categories of health workers (Sindicatão) was not a legitimate union representation for the nurses. The arrival of the nurses in the first round of graduation from UFAL altered the power relations between the various professional categories of the health area, which joined forces with them to obtain political strength in the Unified Health Workers' Movement, against the inequalities of the salary policy of the state public service. During this process, a group of nurse protagonists led by the militant Noraci Pedrosa founded their pre-union entity, APENAL and, given their deception and political strengthening matured in MUTS, the Enfermagem alagoana said of silence and ostracism and initiated a new phase, Leaving to serve other categories such as mass and despontando in the media with great power of demand, the step is that it obtains the requalification of its pre-union entity in the Union. Conclusion: the politicization process of nurses in Alagoas was initiated in MUTS. However, when these nurses become aware of their political force, they fight to transgress the categories and rules instituted by the dictator state, obtaining a requalification of their pre-union entity in a social space for struggle and defense of their interests, or SINEAL.