Os novos desafios do sindicalismo dos trabalhadores no serviço público federal: o caso do SINTESPB.

Abstract

It presents a case study where the repercussions of the crisis that knocked down the syndicalism of public servants and its implications in the Syndicate of Workers in Higher Education in Paraiba (Sindicato dos Trabalhadores em Ensino Superior na Paraiba) were analysed. It focused the period from 1990 to 2006. It all happened in a context of a neoliberal globalization where the background is the repercussions of the crisis of work/employment and its implications to the public sector. As it is a movement of public servants, the impact of changes in the work relations because o f the Reformation of the Role of State were analysed , specifically the Administrative Reformation and its repercussionss in the political and syndicalist practices of SINTESPB (Syndicate of Workers in Higher Education in Paraiba),taking into account the singularities, differentiations and heterogeneity of work categories in the public service and consequently its implications in syndicalist action. It was verified, indeed, the changes that happened in the described period, affected the political and organizative practices, changing the subjectivity o f the Syndicalist leaderances of SINTESPB, leading them to disorientation in the conduction of syndicalist fight, protagonizing a crisis that still lasts in the syndicalist movement of Workers in Public Higher Education in Paraiba.