A trajetória do novo sindicalismo metalúrgico do ABCD paulista e do movimento sindical brasileiro, na década de 1980

Abstract

This study focuses on the rising trajectory of the new trade unionism of ABCD, São Paulo, and of the Brazilian unionism in the country in the 1980s. The terminal crisis of the developmentist economic model and the political transition to democracy, in Brazil, stimulated the effervescence of the Brazilian trade unionism in the 1980s. Meanwhile in the core of central capitalist countries, in Europe and in the USA, was happening a withdrawing process with the trade unionism movement, at the same time, in Brazil, was occurring, in a different way, a strengthening of the organization and performance of this kind of movement. In the 1980s, it happened in Brazil an expressive growth of trade unionism political activities: a rising up of trade unionism density; a disseminating progress in collective bargaining procedures, involving the enlargement of the contractual clauses in the labor agreements; and an expressive growth of strike movements against wage squeeze policies and against authoritarian management practices in labor relations.