Piquete de Greve nas Fábricas da Votorantim Metais e Anglo American em Niquelândia- Goiás no Ano de 1988

Abstract

This research work aims to carry out an analysis of the strike in the Votorantim Metais and Anglo American industries. This theme is relevant and has led us to carry out this research on this strike movement. These companies are located in a region close to the city of Niquelândia, which has a population of approximately 40,000 inhabitants. A small union in an inland city launches two strikes at the same time, because that's what happened all at once, that's what SITIEN (Union of workers in the extractive industries of Niquelândia) did, which set up pickets at the doors of both industries. This act was seen as a shame, especially at Votorantim Metais, that its director during this period was the all-powerful Antônio Ermírio de Morais. It is in this context that we will seek to point out our object of study, which is the 1988 strike in Niquelândia. The local Workers' Party (PT) used the working class of the two large mining companies as a “mass of maneuver”2 with their union. Not that the PT belongs to the Union, mind you, it was used to reach politics and at the municipal level, as, before 1988, there was no workers' party. The municipality is one of the oldest in terms of political emancipation in the State of Goiás, going back to colonial times, when it was still called São José do Alto Tocantins (1775), before becoming Niquelândia (1943). This research work becomes relevant because it seeks to understand the biggest strike on Goiás soil, in this case a strike that took place in a company Votorantim Metais, which at the time was Companhia Níquel Tocantins and At the same time, another occurred at the company Anglo American, which also period in which the strike occurred called Codemin S/A. The two companies are of the mining sector and extract Nickel in a metallized form by Anglo American and in the form of Basic Nickel Carbonate (CbNi) by Votorantim Metais