Trade unionism found on the street and the representativeness of collective subjects of law: the Unique Federation of Oil Workers in the face of neoliberal logic
Unionism found on the street, neoliberalism, repertoire, social regulation of work, unique federation of oil workers, collective action
The research problem questions whether the oil trade union organization, through the Unique Federation of Oil Workers - FUP, diversified its repertoire of collective actions in order to confront the reflexes of the neoliberal logic in the regulation of work and attack the union organization, in a comparative analysis of the claims between the oil workers' strikes of 1995 and 2020. And so the investigative hypothesis is justified, especially in the midst of the austerity of capital over work and, also, around spoliative projects of valorization of capital and a squeeze on the union movement of Unique Federation of Oil Workers - FUP. The general objective of the research is to understand the existence or not of a rearrangement of the entire system of union conformation to develop a “new” repertoire of struggles and responses under “new” forms of representation and organization. It is to verify, therefore, if the FUP displays the ontological dialectic category of a “trade unionism found in the street”. The methodological course aligns with the historical-dialectical epistemology, to be adopted the bibliographic review of classic and contemporary research, in addition to the primary and secondary document analysis, as well as the empirical via field research through semi-structured interviews with union leaders. A hybridism through content and discourse analysis will be used to interpret and explain the data and phenomena in depth.