Os sindicatos no Brasil e o modelo de democracia ampliada

Abstract

This work generally aims to investigate, in light of the union organization model adopted by the Federal Constitution of 1988 and through a review of the dynamics perceived in the union relations in Brazil, if restoring the unions’ reclaiming power can be achieved through a model of expanded democracy. In order to accomplish the settled purpose, the historical events that made the route of unions in Brazil will be analyzed, so revealing how the power relations inside unions were built. Next, the basis of the extended democracy model will be presented, which include necessarily a review of the idea of politics, connected to the strategies developed toward the construction and maintenance of power relations. Facing the proposed research problem requires analyzing the Brazilian union organization model, dinstinguished by union singleness, unionization by category and compulsory checkoff. Conclusions claim the necessity of promoting an union reform, bringing union relations closer to an extended democracy perspective, which must be accompanied by the mobilization of workers, who are the most interested in its construction inside union interactions. This research is theoretical and its methodology is literature review.