Práticas de resistência dos empregados públicos da CORSAN de Quaraí-RS com relação ao discurso de privatização

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze how the discursive formation around the privatization of CORSAN occurs and how the employees of the unit from Quaraí resist the privatization discourse proposed by the State Government over the last decades. To this end, a qualitative research was conducted, from the discourse analysis, based on Foucault. To investigate these discourses, documents that showed historical practices of the company employees were analyzed, as well as employees, who had witnessed other attempts of the State Government of privatize the company in past ages, were interviewed. Given this, it was possible to understand, from the genealogy performed, how the company employees are constituted as individuals. Their discourses are based on enunciations such as, the enunciation of efficiency, the enunciation of collectivism, the enunciation of individualism, the enunciation of (de)politicization and the enunciation of privileges. Employees used to face the privatization process by going on strikes, but they stopped this practice, because the community does not approve it. The practices they usually do are motions of repudiation against the privatization to the City Council and, eventually, undersigned.