Sindicalismo em Pernambuco em tempos de ditadura: relações dissonantes entre senhores de engenho/usineiros e trabalhadores rurais em Catende durante a ditadura militar (1963-1968)

Abstract

This research deals with the study of labor relations after the Rural Worker Statute (ETR) of 1963, which meant the extension of social legislation to rural workers, providing the basis for union organization in the Brazilian countryside. It addresses the conflicting labor relations established between plant owners and rural workers, being in many cases marked by flagrant disrespect for human and labor rights in the midst of this rural labor universe, which are similar to the relations proper to the slave environment in the colonial period, in the Brazilian Northeast. The article seeks to understand how the rural social crisis took place in Pernambuco and how the rural workers' movement expanded, reaching the national territory between the years 1950 and 1963, a period that precedes the implementation of the civil-military regime of 1964-1985 in Brazil, whose bases show that it was the discourse for the possession of the land and the threat of the advance of the peasant leagues one of the main motivations for the military coup of 1964, for representing in the eyes of the rural oligarchies a threat to the properties to which they named the process of “communization” of the countryside, translated into the struggle for agrarian reform, these and other aspects of the countryside struggle will be discussed in the light of the labor lawsuits at the Pernambuco Labor Justice Memorial - TRT-6, which were judged at the Labor Court in Catende, whose flagrant persecution, violence and strong repression are some of the records that can be identified.