ORGANIZAÇÃO INTERNACIONAL DO TRABALHO E REESTRUTURAÇÃO DA ORGANIZAÇÃO SINDICAL: NOVAS TECNOLOGIAS E A NECESSÁRIA PRESERVAÇÃO DA FUNÇÃO INSTITUCIONAL DOS SINDICATOS NA SOCIEDADE CONTEMPORÂNEA

Abstract

In the contemporary society, the Brazilian unions face obstacles that prevent them from doing their functions well, needing a reform on the union movement, that guarantees a change of its proposed action. Seeing this evidence, recognizing that, especially after the approval of the Labor Law Reform in 2017, a lot of changes got the weak environment for union representation even weaker, and that demands a critical consideration related to the main regent principles of the Brazilian Union Law. So, this work intends to analyze the possibility of a restructuring on the Brazilian Union Organization, through the execution of the Convention number 87 of the International Labour Organization and the transformation both inside and outside of the unions. For this, a historical analysis was done about the advent and the development of the militant union, covering the specificities of the Brazilian society and its social, economic and political factors that contributed for its formation. Through the hypothetical-deductive method, this study indicated the possibility of an alteration in the union’s legal regulation, and on the structure of operation from these entities, after the verification of the difficulties of adaptation of these entities in the light of the changes from the current society circumstances. So, the absolute union freedom, as legislated in the Convention number 87 of the ILO, alongside with technological resources working on the structure and operation of the union, and the action of these organizations defending all workers, especially those who utilize digital mediums, can bring back the Brazilian syndicalism and provide its institutional function. This research observed that through this reform the unions, besides adapting themselves to the contemporary society, will also have absolute freedom to act, representing every worker, defending and guarantying their rights.