THE UNION AND THE POLITICAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN IN THE WOMEN'S CLOTHING AND INTIMATE FASHION INDUSTRIES
Political Organization; Union; Women.
The Temer government, on 7/13/2017, approved Law 13,467 called Labor Reform that imposes the end of the mandatory union tax. This new legislation weakens the entities and aims to stop workers' resistance in withdrawing rights and setbacks. In his first months in office, Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) establishes Provisional Measure (MP) 873/2019 which provides in general rules that the union contribution discount authorization is not valid for approval in assembly, as it must be individual and express. It also includes that the union contribution must be paid by bank slip, no longer by wage discount. In this scenario of crisis and offensive against the rights of the working class, this project was justified by the need to study unions at this juncture, rescuing their role as instruments of political organization of the working class today, especially for working women. Our place of study was the Union of Workers of the Female Clothing and Textile Industry of Fortaleza (SINDCONFE), because this category has the face of many women who suffer from the exploitation and oppression that the capitalist system imposes on them. The objective was to analyze the political organization of women in the Women's Clothing and Textile Industry of Fortaleza. To account for the problem presented here and from the motivations that led us to it, we used the assumptions of materialism and dialectics as proposed by Marx and Marxist / materialist feminism, highlighting Saffioti's studies at national and international level ( 2015), Swan (2014), Davis (2016) and Kergoat (2010). Six women from the board were interviewed and documents used in union mobilizations were analyzed along with their category. The results were divided into three large blocks: the first concerning mobilizations against the Labor Reform and the Pension Reform; the second referring to the feminist struggle as a driver of women's organization in the union; and the third presents the problems of racism faced by the directors.