The selling of the labor unions

Abstract

Black and white scenario of Brazilian unionism unveils is the phenomenon of the sale of the labor force. Retrograde corporatist structure, whose pillars were inserted into the dictatorial regime, and in particular the trade union funding system, enable the perpetuation of this purchase relationship, which occurs in three dimensions: the state, the employers and the employees themselves. The collective struggle of the dispossessed loses place to the capitalist logic enhanced by shades of neoliberalism that turns everything into a commodity, enabling the buying and selling of labor force. Thus, both structural legal terms the corporation itself, but also in the collective bargaining plan, it turns out the grooming of union strength through a silent agreement and suffocation of the oppressed workers. Unions who conduct these negotiations were absorbed by the dominant ideology, consolidating its position as legitimizing institutions of domination and submission worker.