Greve e memória: uma análise da atuação do TRT-3 nos dissídios salariais e dissídios de greve do Sindicato dos Trabalhadores Metalúrgicos de Belo Horizonte e Contagem (1964- 1988)

Abstract

This study focuses on the issue of labor disputes triggered by the Metallurgical Workers Union of Belo Horizonte and Contagem, which took place under the tutelage of the Regional Labor Court of the 3rd Region during the years 1964-1988. The aim is to study, based on the combination of historiographical and legal analysis methods, the relationship between the TRT-3 and the workers, seeking to trace the role in face of the demands brought to it during the authoritarian government. It is adopted as a hypothesis that this entity had a complex participation in mediating the dynamics of clash between workers and the interests of the military and business regime, acting in favor of workers and in others in favor of other sectors of society. This hypothesis was tested through an empirical research effort, in which collective bargaining agreements judged by the TRT-3 in the period were analyzed and testimonies were collected from participants in the conflicts. These data were analyzed using quantitative and qualitative analysis methodologies to raise, through statistical indicators, which gains were obtained by workers and which theses were most adopted by TRT-3 during the period, aiming, from these data, to analyze its impact on members. Through the research, it was possible to confirm the adopted hypothesis, by confirming that the organ not only had a character of pure repression or favoring the demands presented by the workers, since at times it defended their interests and at other times it acted in a diametrically opposite way, causing clashes between the parties.