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Análise Social
Print version ISSN 0003-2573
Abstract
REGO, Raquel; NUNES, Cristina and PITA, Tatiana. Police Unions: contribution to a new system for representativeness assessment. Anál. Social [online]. 2021, n.238, pp.110-139. Epub Mar 31, 2021. ISSN 0003-2573. https://doi.org/10.31447/as00032573.2021238.05.
With the democratic transition that began in Portugal in 1974 the police, too, sought to organize into unions. But this aspiration was achieved only at the beginning of the 21st century, when the path to union proliferation was opened, with 19 organizations having been reached in 2019. This article shows that the instrumentalization of the legal form by the police led to the distortion of the nature of union action. Based on interviews and document analysis, we conclude that the assessment system of union representativeness requires objective and predictable criteria to have minimum (not sufficient) conditions for social dialog.
Keywords : police; trade unions; representativeness; fragmentation.