Syndicalism Active Bank Clerk of the Century XXI

Abstract

This article argues some clarifying factors of the transformations in the bank workers Union after the reorganization of the financial system in the nineties in Brazil and analyzes the unfoldings of the tactics adopted for these workers organized in the first years of century XXI. Compose the analysis the intense reduction of the formal job in the banks, the selectivity of the syndical representation and the class segmentation enters the workers in banks, the preservation of raised taxes of syndicalization in the unions of the banks, the constitution of great metropolizadas syndical machines and the mercantile rendering of services, the professionalization of the syndical managers and the substitution of the workers for controllers or third in the direct action of mobilization and protests. Conjugated diverse tactics of organization, the workers Union adjusted to the challenges imposed by the re-struturing, they survived to the syndicate crisis in the nineties and give new directions to represent workers multiple interests integrated to the strategic aims of the financing corporations, contributing to the conflicting amplification of the real subordination of the work in the capital. The article is composed of four sections. The first section relates to the transformations of the banking sector and its impacts on employment. The second section presents an analysis of the changes faced by the bank workers trade union and the defined strategies, while the third section is dedicated to the impasses that emerged among the bank workers after the transformations verified in the sector and the trade union. Finally, the conclusions.