A POLÍTICA INTERNACIONAL E A ATUAÇÃO DA CENTRAL ÚNICA DOS TRABALHADORES NO MERCOSUL
Globalização
Mercosul
Central Única dos Trabalhadores
Política internacional
Regionalização
Hegemonia
Integração regional sul-americana
Entidades sindicais
Direito do trabalho
CUT
Globalization
Regionalism
Performance and international politics of CUT
Brazil
Hegemony
CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::CIENCIA POLITICA::POLITICA INTERNACIONAL::RELACOES I?INTERNACIONAIS, BILATERAIS E MULTILATERAIS
Abstract
Globalization and regionalism are simultaneous and complementary processes which
have introduced a great challenge to the labour movement. In fact, the trade unions have been
constrained to overcome the national boundaries within which they habitually operate in
construction of international policies and practices in order to face a new stage of capitalist
expansion which is characterised by the productive and financial transnationality and by the
dominance of the neoliberal ideology. An analysis of the international policies and
performance of the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT/Brazil) in the integration process
of the MERCOSUL has demonstrated the particular configuration of the social forces which
represent capital and workers in the region. It has also allowed for the identification of how
the labour movement has operated and which factors have influenced it. Labour relations in
the MERCOSUL have been characterised by the struggle between the classes, which
reproduces the hegemonic processes which occur in the civil societies of each of the states
involved in the integration process. The hegemony of the capital in the MERCOSUL is
characterised by the commercial logic which has guided the integration process and by the
attribution of a weak institutional role to the trade unions. Since the latter have occupied
subordinate positions and have been based on small politics , they have faced strong
resistance from governments and the private sector in accepting their proposals for an increase
in the integration of the social and labour dimensions. The countless proposals which have
been formulated by the CUT (one of the most representative unions in the region) and by the
regional syndicate movements (which are articulated by the Coordenadora de Centrais
Sindicais do Cone Sul ) can be considered as significant advancements in the social and
working spheres of the MERCOSUL. However, it should be noted that the proposals which
have been presented by the CUT and the CCSCS, although devised within the capitalist order,
have not managed to break the barriers of governments and the private sector in the
MERCOSUL. This demonstrates that the syndicate movements have played a submissive role
within the integration process, which, in turn, reflects their weakened role within the nations
that constitute the block. In these nations, the capitalist classes have continuously managed to
preserve their hegemony. It has been noted, in fact, that amidst the underlying clash between
the social classes, the syndicate movements have not managed to break the bonds of
commitment which have existed between governments and the private sector; they have not,
either, managed to counteract the resistance of the latter two against the expansion of the
social dimension of the MERCOSUL.
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Subject(s)
Relações internacionaisGlobalização
Mercosul
Central Única dos Trabalhadores
Política internacional
Regionalização
Hegemonia
Integração regional sul-americana
Entidades sindicais
Direito do trabalho
CUT
Globalization
Regionalism
Performance and international politics of CUT
Brazil
Hegemony
CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::CIENCIA POLITICA::POLITICA INTERNACIONAL::RELACOES I?INTERNACIONAIS, BILATERAIS E MULTILATERAIS