A comunicação no Tribunal Regional do Trabalho e os direitos sociais : análise dos releases

Abstract

The present essay ponders on the communication policies of Labor Courts, focusing on the contribution given by the Mato Grosso Regional Labor Court Press Office to the consolidation process of the social rights of workers. We have strived to clarify if the same press office gives the population access to information that might contribute to the strengthening of their rights, investigating the elaborative process of guidelines and press-releases, which are informative material already structured as journalistic news, sent by an information source to the press. This analysis was based on the categories: State, Social Rights and Communication. As a research information source, we choose press-releases, created by the Mato Grosso Regional Labor Court press office, a unit that has, among its tasks, the implementation of Communication Policies in Labor Courts, in a regional scope. As a research method, a Content Analysis was used, through which 50 releases, which had been produced and sent to media outlets from September 2008 to September 2010, were analyzed. This time period was set while taking in consideration the publication of Regulation # 85 by the National Council of Justice - NCJ, in September 2009, regulatory landmark for the communication policies of the Brazilian Judiciary Power. The analysis revealed the presence of strategic content in the strengthening of social rights in a working scope, according to the categorizing system established here. We have still sought to answer if there was any alteration in the contents of the releases that were created, when comparing the period before and after the Resolution # 85/NCJ, and also, if the State, through the Labor Court of Mato Grosso, promotes communication. Another necessity in this study was to verify whether the information made available through releases meets the goals set out in the communication policy of the judiciary, such as, to give society extensive knowledge of public policies and programs and of decisions made, and to divulge the rights and services placed at the disposal of every citizen. The results indicate that the material produced provides information that can help in consolidation of the social rights of workers. The results indicate that the material produced provides enough information in order to support the consolidation of the social rights of workers. However, impediments that limit the informative potential of releases were observed, as in, the presence of terms that difficult the understanding of those who have no legal knowledge and lack of information context. As for the impact caused by the editing of the National Communication Policy, through Regulation # 85 of NCJ, the analysis revealed that there was no significant alteration in the information material produced before and after the imposition of the norm. At the end we point out that, even within the institutions, which are an intrinsic part of the structure of the capitalist state, it is possible to develop a communication tool that reflects the contradictions of social relations.