Submitted by Patricia Barros (patricia.barros@ufes.br) on 2016-08-04T18:42:02Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO - PERLA RODRIGUES LOBO - DEFESA 31-5-2016.pdf: 2775661 bytes, checksum: 7142e9b082ce3d7746c3393925d4e1c5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Patricia Barros (patricia.barros@ufes.br) on 2016-08-04T18:42:30Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO - PERLA RODRIGUES LOBO - DEFESA 31-5-2016.pdf: 2775661 bytes, checksum: 7142e9b082ce3d7746c3393925d4e1c5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-04T18:42:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO - PERLA RODRIGUES LOBO - DEFESA 31-5-2016.pdf: 2775661 bytes, checksum: 7142e9b082ce3d7746c3393925d4e1c5 (MD5) / No contexto dinâmico da greve as pessoas convivem em constante interação, compreendem e constroem significados e sentidos para as atividades cotidianas e fazem das organizações, espaços de aprendizagem e geração de conhecimento. Desse modo, ao revelar as práticas desempenhadas nesse contexto em uma biblioteca universitária busca-se entender os processos organizativos em sua dinamicidade e interação. É nessa perspectiva que Feldman e Orlikowski (2011) ressaltam a relevância dos Estudos baseados na prática (EBPs). A abordagem dos EBPs permite compreender, por exemplo, os processos organizativos em uma biblioteca universitária, direcionando o enfoque para as dinâmicas e relações organizacionais. Assim, tem-se como objetivo geral deste estudo: compreender o processo organizativo da greve na Biblioteca da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. Para o alcance do objetivo da pesquisa, optou-se pela perspectiva teórica da etnometodologia que, de acordo com Coulon (1995), contribui para a mudança de um paradigma normativo para um paradigma interpretativo. As técnicas de coleta de dados adotadas foram: observação participante, conversas informais com os praticantes, análise de documentos e fotografias. Como conclusões destaca-se que os processos organizativos apresentaram-se dinâmicos e inter-relacionados entre os atores humanos (técnicos administrativos, bolsistas, terceirizados) e não-humanos (equipamento do ponto eletrônico, tenda da greve; artefatos de divulgação; artefatos de manifestação; atividades culturais e recreativas) na prática. Como contribuições destacam-se: o potencial das abordagens dos EPBs e da Etnometodologia nos estudos organizacionais da área de biblioteconomia, pois, possibilitaram conhecer a dinamicidade da prática da greve e pensar a organização enquanto uma realidade socialmente construída. Somado a isso, permitiu compreender as particularidades da greve que encontravam-se além do processo organizativo formal de uma biblioteca universitária. / In a dynamic context of a strike people live in continuous interaction, they understand and build meanings and senses to daily activities and turn organizations into learning and knowledge construction spaces. Thus, by revealing practices performed in this context in a University Library this study seeks to understand the organizational processes in its dynamism and interaction. From this perspective Feldman and Orlikowski (2011) emphasize the relevance of the Practice-Based Studies (PBS). The PBS approach allows us to understand, for example, the organizational processes in a University Library, focusing the dynamics and organizational interaction. Therefore the general objective of this study is: understanding the organizational process of the strike in the Federal University of Espírito Santo library. To achieve the research main goal was used the theoretical perspective of ethno-methodology, which according to Coulon (1995), contributes to change a normative paradigm to an interpretive paradigm. Data collection procedures were the following: participant observation, informal conversations with practitioners, documents and photographs analysis. As final considerations it stands out that the organizational processes were dynamic and interrelated among the human actors (administrative officers, scholars, outsourced) and non-human (electronic equipment, striker‟s reunion tent; informational and propaganda disclosure material; cultural and recreational activities) in practice. Contributions include: the potential of PBS approaches and Ethno- methodology in organizational studies in library science field, since it was possible to recognize the dynamism on practicing the strike and analyze the Organization as a socially constructed reality. In addition, the study allowed understanding particularities of the strike who were beyond the formal organizational process from a University Library.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro Ciencias da Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-08T17:24:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 1990 / A produção histórica do trabalhador da mina de carvão se realiza muito mais no processo das relações sociais, das lutas, do movimento dos trabalhadores da mina e no próprio de processo concreto de trabalho do que através de intervenções educativas, como a educação escolar, por exemplo. Este estudo analisa a dimensão educativa do piquete da greve dos trabalhadores da mina, em criciúma, em 1987. Para este estudo o autor situa este piquete na evolução do processo extrativo do carvão no sul de Santa Catarina e na evolução do movimento dos trabalhadores das minas da região. A dimensão educativa do piquete foi apreendida no impacto que ele teve sobre a autonomia, a solidariedade e a mobilização dos trabalhadores da mina, vistas sob o aspecto político, ideológico e econômico. Na análise foi privilegiado o aumento do crescimento, que modificou sua visão do mundo e que os credenciou como autores e sujeitos das relações do trabalho.

Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, Florianópolis, 2013. / Made available in DSpace on 2013-12-05T22:42:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 318984.pdf: 1022389 bytes, checksum: 6fe45031891a1471bdd0d734ed7a276c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Essa tese estuda as trajetórias e as experiências do movimento operário sindical da cidade de Criciúma, Santa Catarina, da década de sessenta ao início dos anos noventa. O estudo se inicia a partir do Governo Militar no Brasil (1964-1985) e percorre as décadas de setenta e oitenta chegando ao governo da chamada "Nova Republica" (1985-1990). São analisadas as seguintes categorias de trabalhadores: mineiros de carvão, os quais se organizavam em dois sindicatos no mesmo município, contrariando a legislação trabalhista brasileira; os trabalhadores metalúrgicos e sua associação sindical fundada em 1962; os trabalhadores das cerâmicas de pisos e azulejos que organizaram o sindicato a partir de 1958; os trabalhadores das indústrias do vestuário e calçadista, sendo que o sindicato que os representa foi fundado em 1979. O estudo analisa a formação e a organização da classe operária da cidade de Criciúma, percebendo as peculiaridades do movimento operário local em relação ao movimento geral da classe operária no Brasil durante aquele período. O presente estudo demonstra também a influencia do movimento operário nacional na organização da classe operária de Criciúma. As categorias selecionadas representam os setores econômicos mais importantes da economia da cidade. O setor da mineração é o mais antigo e, os operários desse setor, carregam consigo uma forte tradição de lutas sindicais. Os trabalhadores dos outros setores, surgidos com o processo de diversificação econômica na década de sessenta, também desenvolveram importantes embates com os capitalistas locais tornando Criciúma conhecida como a "Cidade das Greves". <br>

Thesis (MTech (Public Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. / The purpose of this study was to analyse the labour relations of the workers in the agricultural sector, with reference to the De Doors area in the Western Cape. Despite the political, social and economic changes to better the lives of the farm workers that have been implemented to rectify the inequalities of the past, the labour conditions on farms stayed unchanged. It is evident that there is a gap in the labour relations in the agricultural sector, due to the 2012/13 strike actions that took place. Qualitative research methodology was employed in the study; it provided the researcher with the opportunity to personally interact with the farm workers. It further allowed the researcher to gain a holistic understanding of the daily lives of the farm workers which would foster a better understanding of their daily struggles. Interviews were used as method of data collection. This methodology also enables the researcher to interpret and describe the actions of participants. Good labour relations play a vital role in any industry or organisation. Farm workers are generally classified as vulnerable and the most exploited group of the South African society. They often work irregular hours throughout the year in various weather settings. Regardless of the physical strain that their jobs entail, farm workers earn a low wage and are often deprived of the basic benefits that an employee should be entitled to. This was the reason the farm workers embarked on a strike in 2012/13. The researcher proposed recommendations to the Agricultural department on how to improve the labour relations on the farms in the De Doorns area by suggesting that more labour inspectors are being employed to oversee that legislation are implemented. Skills Development needs to be become compulsory for all farm workers as farming is becoming more technological. Skills Development unlocks talents and creative energy for the farm workers which have a positive impact on production.

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Magister Commercii - MCom / Workers' right to strike is embedded in the South African Constitution and this right generally reflects a sign of fairness. Strike activities form a vital part of collective bargaining and the supremacy liaison between employers and employees would be severely ruined if workers are not entitled the right to strike. Ever since the right to strike was documented in the South African Constitution, strike actions have been a collective occurrence in the country. Reasons for strikes in South Africa are multi-layered and their effects are harmfully disastrous. Workers are on strikes due to various reasons such as low pay, inequality, and unemployment as a result of union conflicts and the inequitable degree of labour relations. However, strikes would lead to various problems in the economy, such as reduced production, scaring off investors, labour replaced by capital, etc. This study first defines the various key concepts relating to industrial action, before reviewing the theories on strikes as well as the results of past local and empirical studies. The study moves on to use the Department of Labour's 2003-2014 Industrial Action Report data to provide descriptive statistics on strike activities in 1999-2014 by broad industry categories (examining the number of strikes, work hours lost, work days lost, time-loss ratios, principle causes of strikes, most active trade unions involved in strikes), before using a static approach to estimate the value of total production foregone as well as the value foregone as a proportion of gross value added (GVA) by industry in each year as a result of strikes. Finally, the older 1970-1998 strikes data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) is ‘merged’ with the abovementioned 1999-2014 data, to examine the econometric relationship between strikes and business cycles, and it is found that strikes are procyclical.

The recent amendments made to employment laws and in particular the rewriting of the South African Labour Relations Act has brought into focus the diverse and conflicting interests of employers and employees, which is a concern of labour law analysts. This appraisal of South African of strike law examines the statutory and judicially established labour law in regard to the phenomenon of collective industrial action by employees and the regulation of its occurrence. Historical developments in strike law are traced from the early 1900’s. A period of segregated trade unionism, led ultimately to the introduction of a more inclusive system of regulation, which has in turn been modified to bring the law into line with the new constitutional imperatives. Industrial action occurred, often unregulated and regardless of statutory limitations, and in particular that industrial action which related to mass protest action, now recognized as a specific form of strike. The now repealed Labour Relations Act 28 of 1956 is examined with regard to its strike regulating provisions, and identification of what were then new, unrecognized forms of strike action. It has allowed concepts and principles to be developed, under the unfair labour practice jurisdiction of the Industrial Court, much of which has been incorporated in the new Labour Relations Act. The legislation on strike law, which has been developed over the years, has been refined by the constitutional imperatives introduced to the national legal system. The relevant aspects of the new Constitution Act 108 of 1996 and its pervasive effect on strike law are examined. The right to strike in South African labour law, together with the protection of collective bargaining, is now constitutionally entrenched, and the right to strike is now accepted as a necessary adjunct to collective bargaining. It is necessary to give effect to the Constitution in national legislation, and the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 endeavours to accomplish this in chapter IV in regard to strike law, which, it could be argued, limits rather than gives expression to the right to strike. iii The Labour Relations Act of 1995 is then discussed with reference to protected and prohibited strikes, and unregulated strike action. It will be evident that the Act has endeavoured to contain unprocedural and productivity draining industrial action, by subjecting rights disputes to arbitration and Labour Court adjudication, subject to certain exceptions. The recourse to lock-out, as the employer’s prerogative and general corollary of strike action, is briefly discussed. The case law relating to strikes is discussed in respect of both the 1956 Act and the new Labour Relations Act of 1995. Among the issues explored are the strike provisions which have been developed in statute and labour related common law, such as the identification of issues in dispute, notice of strike, the issuing of ultimatums, the audi altarem partem rule and the court’s approach to protected and unprotected strikes. The intention is to determine trends resulting from amendments to the law and draw inferences regarding, in particular, the unregulated form of strikes that occur within the scope of the protections offered by the Act. It is the intention to determine whether the desired effect has been achieved by implementing legislative reforms in response to public policy considerations.

The lock-out is accepted as a necessary element of collective bargaining. The law relating to lock-out is considered as a legitimate instrument of industrial action. There are a number of procedural requirements for a legal lock-out. The dispute should be referred to a bargaining council (or where there is no bargaining council with jurisdiction, to a statutory council) or, failing which, the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration. If the bargaining/statutory council or the commission fails to resolve the dispute, it is no longer required that a ballet should be brought out in favour of the contemplated lock-out before the lock-out could be legal: all that is required is that the period of notice of the intended lock-out is given. The lock-out may either be protected or unprotected. It is protected if it is not prohibited absolutely and the various procedural requirements have been complied with. The protected lock-out is immuned from civil liability. On the other hand a lockout will be unprotected if it does not comply with sections 64 and 65 of the Labour Relations Act, 1995. In the circumstances the Labour Court has exclusive jurisdiction to grant an interdict or order to restrain any person from participating in unprotected industrial action and to order the payment of just and equitable compensation for any loss attributable to the lock-out. Lock-outs are prohibited in specific instances and allowed with some qualifications in others. For example, employers engaged in the provision of essential or maintenance services are prohibited from locking their employees out in order compel them to comply with their demand. Such essential services are Parliamentary services, the South African Police Service and a service the interruption of which endangers the life, personal safety or health of the whole. A distinction is also drawn between offensive and defensive lock-outs. Defensive lock-outs involve the closure of an employer’s premises or the shutting down of its operations during industrial action initiated by workers. The offensive lock-outs, also known as “pre-emptive lock-outs”, amount to an employer initiated form of industrial iv action where the premises are locked and workers are excluded and prevented from working. The law relating to lock-out in South Africa is clearly put in its proper perspective by the interim Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 200 of 1993, final Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 108 of 1996, Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 and in Ex Parte Chairperson of the Constitutional Assembly: In re Certification of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa.1 However the situation is unsatisfactory to employers. The interim Constitution guaranteed the “right to strike” and “recourse to the lock-out”. Under the final Constitution lock-outs enjoy no direct protection. The Constitutional Court’s certification judgement rejects the view that it is necessary in order to maintain equality to entrench the right to lock-out once the right to strike has been included. The Constitutional Court concluded that the right to strike and the right to lock-out are not always and necessarily equivalent. However the purpose of the lock-out is to settle collective dispute of the ways permitted by the Labour Relations Act, 1995. The purpose is not to terminate the relationship between the employer and the employee. The employer may not, for example, dismiss employees finally at the end of an unsuccessful lock-out in order to avoid the consequences of impending strike action by the employees.

On 16 August 2012, the South African Police Service fired upon striking miners in Marikana, South Africa, resulting in the death of 34 mineworkers. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of protracted violent industrial labour disputes on socio-economic development in South Africa. The study explores the root causes of labour disputes in Marikana and considers strategies that can be employed to avoid similar violent and destabilising strikes in the mining and other industries. This research confirms that presumably the pursuit of wage increase is still the primary cause of violent strikes in the country. Furthermore, the research shows clearly that working hours, work conditions, sympathy, and demands from employees and trade unions are major causes of labour disputes. The findings also show that amongst other things participation of employees in work related issues like policy formulation can reduce prevalence of labour disputes. The study also reveals that communication between workers and employees in work places can help both parties to discuss issues before extreme measures are taken.

The nationwide strike by 70 000 construction workers between 8 and 15 July 2009 was unprecedented and significant in several respects. This was the first national strike on 2010 World Cup sites by South African construction workers and was therefore an historic event. A second key feature of the strike was the unity displayed by workers and trade unions within a sector organised by several trade unions. Engineering and building workers came out on strike, with the Building Construction & Allied Workers Union (BCAWU) and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) standing together as their representative organisations. A third feature of the strike was the widespread sympathy for it by the South African public and media. This was despite it potentially setting back progress with World Cup projects. Fourthly, the pressure placed upon the trade unions' negotiating team by the Ministry of Labour and the FIFA Local Organising Committee (LOC) proved lethal in undermining their, assisting in causing them to dilute their trade union demands and demobilising the national strike.