POLITICAL ORGANIZATION AS RESISTANCE TO PRECARIOUSNESS OF WORK IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Letícia Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Lima, Francisco Meton Marques de, Tôrres, Pollyanna Sousa Costa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Direito.Unb (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistadedireitounb/article/view/32332
• topic: efeitos da pandemia; precarização do trabalho; legalização da precariedade; uberização do trabalho; solidariedade de classe

To contain the pandemic effects of COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended measures such as distance and social isolation. These measures caused a considerable decrease not only in the circulation of people, but also in consumption and economic activity. Despite the centrality of labor, in capitalist societies, labor is always seen as an expendable cost in favor of the profits of capital. As an expression of this, Provisional Measures 927 and 936 were issued during the pandemic, which allow the suspension of the employment contract, an increase in the number of hours for health workers and a reduction in the number of hours and wages for professionals in other sectors. Such measures legalize precariousness in the formal labor market and can be a test for more fragile labor contracts. One of the facets of precarious working conditions and relationships is also deregulation, through uberization of work, which imposes the overexploitation of human work through applications that connect the driver or delivery person to consumers who request a private transport or delivery service. of food and goods. In the pandemic, workers by application, in addition to not having the right to distance and / or social isolation according to WHO recommendations, did not receive, in their breadth as a category, protective equipment against the new coronavirus (face masks and alcohol gel, for example). In response to the terrible working conditions, we have two examples: the global strike of drivers on 5/8/2019 and the national stoppage of delivery people on 7/1/2020. These initiatives represent a resistance to the precariousness and uberization of work through political organization, unity and class solidarity.