Banca de DEFESA: FABRICIO SANTOS MOREIRA

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STUDENT : FABRICIO SANTOS MOREIRA
DATE: 14/07/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência
TITLE:

STRUCTURAL PATTERN OF THE TRADE UNION RELATIONSHIP WITH PENSION FUNDS IN BRAZIL: AS PREVI AND PETROS EXPERIENCES

KEY WORDS:

Unions. Pension funds. Transformism

PAGES: 158
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Administração
SUMMARY:

The research investigates the relationship between unions and pension funds, defending the thesis that there is a structural pattern in this relationship in which unions strengthen the political program of capital for pension funds, legitimizing it as a program of struggle for the working class against capital. This pattern is constituted from four contradictions, which constitute the dimensions of the empirical analysis and support the defended thesis: the contradictory dual interest, the claim to the monopoly of legitimacy, the ability to challenge capital as a requirement to participate in capital, and transformism. . In empirical terms, we investigate the relationship between unions and pension funds in Brazil, from 1980 to 2006, in the Banco do Brasil workers' pension fund (PREVI) and in the Petrobras workers' pension fund (PETROS), with documental research and interviews as the main data collection procedures. As a result, it was found that the main workers' unions of Banco do Brasil and Petrobras, formulated a political program that considers pension funds a great achievement for workers, that the assets of pension funds are owned by workers, and should be managed by the workers themselves through the election of PREVI and PETROS managers. The unions led the fight against their employers to achieve this right, since they do not spontaneously cede control over the vast assets of pension funds. In the electoral process for choosing managers, they systematically articulate slates from the union movement, arguing that they are the most politically qualified to defend the interests of the worker, including claiming the ability to be managers that would provide greater profitability and benefits than the managers appointed by the employers. When in the condition of managers elected by workers in pension funds, they reproduce and legitimize the logic of capital accumulation that are harmful to the working class as a whole, since the political commitment to maximizing capital as beneficial to the growth of pension fund assets imposes itself, to the detriment of the fact that this maximization occurs through the intensification of exploitation and precariousness of other fractions of the working class. The process as a whole can be characterized as transformism, since we have workers' organizations and leaders defending the capital program for pension funds as a program of workers' struggle against capital. It was observed that this practice is not restricted to the PREVI and PETROS cases, therefore, after analyzing these two cases, we present and discuss the elements that support the argument that this is a standard that structures the relationship between the set of unions and funds pension in Brazil.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - SIDARTHA SORIA E SILVA - UFPE
Externo ao Programa - 1347935 - ANTONIO JORGE FONSECA SANCHES DE ALMEIDA - nullExterno à Instituição - EURELINO TEIXEIRA COELHO NETO - UEFS
Presidente - 1809261 - MARIA ELISABETE PEREIRA DOS SANTOS
Interna - 1978310 - TANIA MOURA BENEVIDES