The trajectory of syndicalism in Brazil from 1978 to 1998 appears to be a passage, at the level of syndicalist strategy, from confrontation to conflictive cooperation, or still, from class struggle in production towards a "antagonistic convergence" or a participative syndicalism, which is, nothing more, nothing less, than a defense of a newer type, of neo corporative aspect. What it is aimed to characterize here is the progressive prevalence, in the hegemonic syndicate practice of CUT in the 1990's, of this workers' neo corporatism, which tends to debilitate the class perspective that characterized political and syndicate struggle in Brazil in the 1980's.
