Estado, Sindicato e CUT: uma análise as vésperas do 10° CONCUT

Abstract

The objective of this thesis is to analyze the trajectory of the Central Union of Workers (CUT), in relation to perceptions that develops on the relationship between State and union. We talked briefly about the treatment of this relationship in the literature on the Brazilian labor movement, and considers resolutions of the congresses of the CUT, since its founding to the present, when we analyze the proposals presented by the leadership of the CUT on the eve of the 10th CONCUT. Among the continuities and ruptures, it is noted that the CUT evolves from a more conflictive, to distance from the various governments for the acceptance of a position of greater collaboration with the State, especially since the rise of Lula as president Republic. This path is characterized by the redefinition of the roles played by the CUT that besides the condition of an instrument of the workers' demand, seeks dialogue with other actors in civil society, to forge alliances to confront the dilemmas associated with the processes of neoliberal economic restructuring . However, these changes are concurrent with the reaffirmation of the principles proclaimed in the origin of the CUT, in order to establish his identity in a setting marked by the presence of alternative current union organization.