A flexibilização das relações de trabalho na saúde: a realidade de um Hospital Universitário Federal

Abstract

A socio-historical study aiming to analise the repercussions of the flexibilisation of labour relationships in a University Hospital. The methodology of triangular analysis of the oral history collected from testimonials of workers, institutional documents and literature was used. One finds that the flexibilization, driven by the 1990 State Reform, interfered in a structural manner in the trajectory of the institution which, due to a Federal Government politics of reduction in the number of workers, adopted outsourcing in order to maintain the workforce. The outsourcing led to staff turnover, conflicts of various causes, as well as disruption and discontinuity of the work processes. We conclude that the flexibilization of work relations has become a hindrance to the university hospital, disorganizing the services, impairing students and users and contributing to the precariousness of work and the social unprotection of workers.