Paralisação da Sena Sugar Estates - Marromeu e o impacto sócio-económico para os trabalhadores, 1984-2000

Abstract

The present work intends to discuss the causes that led to the stoppage of SSE Marromeu and the impact of this stoppage for the workers until then jobs. To carry out the work, different methods were combined. Documentary research, interviews with some of the company's workers and others who had a connection with the object of the work, and a visit to the company's infrastructure. In the selection of interviewees, workers assigned to the company before the stoppage were privileged, without neglecting the other categories of informants. The work arrives at some considerations that in no way constitute an exhaustion of the study. i) There was no single cause for the stoppage. It results from the combination of several causes at different times. Divestment, accompanied by the flight of technicians on the eve of independence, the government's inability to cover the deficit left by the former owners and the conflict between the government and Renamo. In this set of causes, the war can be considered the main aggravating factor and the one that precipitated the stoppage. The impact of the strike must be understood taking into account the different categories of workers and the different rights and obligations they had. Seasonal and casual workers were immediately laid off. This is because the hiring of these was only necessary without the stoppage. Effective workers were not laid off. His dismissal involved the payment of compensation and the company at the time could not respond to this obligation. These workers remained in the company given the dependency that was created from the company. But it should be noted that the conditions of these workers deteriorated with the stoppage (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)