Operários em construção: as experiências sindicais dos trabalhadores da construção civil de Fortaleza entre as décadas de 1970 e 1990

Abstract

This composition analyzes the syndical experiences of the workers of the civil construction of Fortaleza in the period between the 70’s and the 90’s. Analyzing the peculiarities of the world of the work in the civil construction, particularly the daily laborer in the seedbeds of workmanships, the study wants to detach the development of the syndical opposition in 1988 with a proposal of reorganization of the syndical relations that were developed by the direction of the union since 1976, and this way reflect on the establishment of a convergence of interests in relation to the laborers of the category. Thus, we analyze how the first experiences in this category from the politician-syndical conceptions of the new direction had been constructed: the I congress of the workers of the civil construction, the first general strikes, the elaboration of the new statute and its politician-legal lines of direction, the project of popular education, the construction of the laboring journal, the leisure activities and the development of nets of solidarity at the moments when the conflict with the entrepreneurs of the sector became hard are some of these experiences that, when being constructed by the laborers, finished for constructing themselves agents protagonists in their world of work.