As relações de trabalho no setor aereo : estudo sobre o impacto das transformações no transporte aereo regular no Brasil sobre os trabalhadores / Labor relations in the transport sector : a study on the impact of changes in the airline in Brazil on workers

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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In this thesis we analyze the changes in the air transport sector in Brazil between 1990 and 2006 as well as the main impacts on labor relations in the sector. To understand these changes, we initially analyze the airline industry since the creation of the first companies, the formation of its regulatory framework, until the period of intense movements of expansion and contraction of the sector. In a more recent period, we seek to draw a parallel among three aspects: macroeconomic, regulatory, and those associated to management strategies adopted by airlines. Considering this scenario, we established a brief description of employment in the sector, with emphasis on the category (Flight Deck Crew and Cabin Crew member), analyzing also the representation of the class and collective bargaining occurred in between 1990 and 2006. It was possible to observe that these changes had affected the air traffic sector in a decisive way. The business performance, as inferred by air traffic, had presented higher growth rates than the GDPgrowth. This good result was driven by demand in the domestic market (ass-km used), which grew 174% in the period. This expansion assured the domestic segment greater participation in relation to the international segment. Nevertheless major airline companies that have operated in the domestic market in the 1990s, as Transbrasil, Varig and Vasp, have disappeared. Varig, after a long agony, was finally absorbed by the group GOL. This radical change did not affect the strong concentration of the sector, which continued with at least two major airlines, snapping up about 90% of the domestic market. We must emphasize also that this period brought to fore a profound change, characterized by the general reduction of total operating costs, launching of new products/services, customer segmentation, technological advances and significant increase in productivity. Never the less the adjustments described above affected workers, causing a precarization of work relations. In this sense, it could be seen a contraction in real incomes, besides na intensification of the working journey. Changes on the employees profile were experienced, especially because of the reduction of working ties of long duration. We noticed that among the category, flight attendants category absorbed the greatest impact, by the increase in turnover, by the contraction in real incomes and also by the increase of short-term employment bonds. Facing this scenario, of strong instability and of heavy offensive by the airlines companies, seeking more flexible employment relationships and reduced costs, the workers were able to resist. The union of category (Flight Deck Crew and Cabin Crew member) -SNA has managed to preserve the rules of the class, as well as the pattern of collective negotiations, although this period has became notorious by a weak union (low unionization and detachment of the base), the fragmentation of worker representation in the sector

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aeronautica comercial - brasil aviadores relações trabalhistas brazilian commercial aviation airline pilots labor relations in the airline sectors

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