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The Origin of the VidaViva Network

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The VidaViva network was founded in Brazil in 2002 by Tie Global,

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an international network of trade union acitivists in different countries of the world,

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such as Brazil, Mexico, USA, Germany, 

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Turkey, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, South Africa, Mosambique, and Senegal.

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Activities of Tie Global adress workers in the formal and the informal sector.

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They aim at strengthening an international sense of solidarity between workers

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and their organizations in different parts of the world. 

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Another motivation is the exchange of experiences and information 

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between workers, trade union activists, women's groups and human rights organizations. 

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Therefore, Tie Global organizes conferences, develops projects around specific issues,

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educational seminars, and exchange visits

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on a local, regional, and international level. 

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In Brazil the VidaViva network consists of trade unions from different sectors:

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food, chemical, metal, rural workers, data processing,

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banking, civil servants and others.

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One of the main subjects within the network is workers' health,

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which is affected by poor working conditions. 

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Problems and Necessities

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Health is not seen as a mobilizing issue by unions 

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who put all their weight in salary campaigns.

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Unions have difficulties to understand the process which causes occupational illness.

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Within the VidaViva network the unions reflect on

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the rising level of wokers' accidents and illnesses, both physical and mental, 

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caused primarily by changes in the working sphere during recent years. 

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Not all unions provide a structure of education

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that enables workers to participate in these debates.

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The VidaViva network aims at creating a mechanism to face this process. 

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CHANGES IN THE WORKING SPHERE

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In former times companies and public or private organizations used bare pressure

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on workers to make them achieve production targets. 

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Nowadays new strategies are being used: by delusion, cooptation,

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and stimulating competitiveness between workers,

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companies try to convince workers that they are partners,

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collaborators of management, and do not need unions.

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At the same time workforces have been downsized by huge numbers, 

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while outsourcing and work intensification kept raising the pace. 

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This created a steady growth of physical and mental illnesses.

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LIFE, HEALTH AND WORK

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Look, even though my father and sister were doctors,

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I had no idea what it would mean to be a doctor.

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I had no idea I wanted to be a doctor.

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I did it because I was very presumptuous then and it was the most difficult entrance exam. 

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I lived in Rio and one reason was my family. I wanted to pass the exam, my sister had passed. 

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It was not like I always wanted to be a doctor, you see?

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But I found myself, because I love it! 

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Normally I wake up at 6 am. Then I wake my husband and my son,

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and we have breakfast together.

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Then my husband goes to work, I come here, my son goes to school. I only have one child.

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On arrival it is very stressful here,

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because in the emergency room, after the night shift, there are many things left to us to resolve.

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So in the morning you run a lot, even though the emergency room is very crowded all day.

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Anything can happen at any hour. 

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What stresses you out, is this kind of unexpected thing,

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and suddenly, because we are a public hospital, we cannot afford to solve it.

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And this stresses you out just too much, you know?

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If you lose a patient due to lack of resources - that's the worst thing.

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I consider this one of the biggest causes of stress people have here.

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And it's hard to get over it.

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In university they make us believe we are some kind of half-gods.

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We seem to be masters of the circumstances, but in reality this is not the case.

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It is frustrating when you cannot achieve the goal of saving everybody.

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If that doesn't work, it really wears you out – you feel like the worst person in the whole world. 

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You begin to look for excuses for what has happened. 

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This is the worst stress a doctor has when he lost a patient.

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I try to disconnect when I get back home - that's what I usually do to improve my condition.

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Because when you come home very loaded, you return even more stressed, sucked!

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You can describe a person as sucked when she returns from the emergency room. 

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I just had a lot of migraines, and a hypertensive peak in the emergency room caused by stress.

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In my age you must begin to stop doing this work.

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I get involved so much, I think it's not good for me.

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Even looking for alternatives -

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I walk, I take care what I eat, I started a therapy,

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I'm doing yoga to relax -

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but I feel I'm still not doing well. 

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I think... the satisfaction is to get the job done well in a place with poor conditions. 

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This is a great pleasure, maybe it's even a little vanity. I think every doctor is vain. 

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But nevertheless it's all about...  

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achieving your goals with limited resources. Achieving your goals is a very good thing.

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Which one of these triangles represents best the relation between life-health and work?

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As you can see, one of the central issues in the VidaViva network

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is to develop a process of discussion about health, with the worker as a subject. 

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We want to focus on health more broadly by stimulating a profound reflection among workers 

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on changes in the world of work that are affecting their life and their health.

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Work – Life – Health 

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Collective Building Process

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This whole process is under permanent development.

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Working groups assist in the production of training tools.

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The implementation starts with the presentation of the program to union leaders.

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The union leaders then choose local trainers who will be trained by popular educators

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to enable them to implement the program's tools with the workers.

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The next step: the acutal implementation with rank&file workers, is done by the union itself. 

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The complete process is accompanied and supported by the VidaViva network

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who organises regional and national meetings where local trainers 

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can exchange their experiences with the program's implementation. 

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The implemenations' results are then used for negotiations with the companies. 

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Training for Action

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Meeting the needs identified by the unions,

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training resources have been developed to promote collective spaces for reflection 

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and help workers to develop concrete actions for intervention at the workplace.

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What are the three priorities in your life? 

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Children's Perspectives

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Dad, dad, dad, dad... 

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dad, dad, dad... "What is it, do not scream! I'm listening to you ... "

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Life depends on work. In order to buy food, clothing - you need money. So you have to work.

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When she's at home, I like to talk to her about the news of the day, I like to study with her...

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The news that I tell her is: what happened at school or just what happens - good or bad. 

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She listens, she gives advice, she... just does it, and listens to you... she is paying attention.

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My mother is a housekeeper.

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She works Monday through Saturday.

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And my father is confectioner, he works at the bakery. 

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Oh, he gets home tired, you see?

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When he is here, he says: "Give me a little rest." 

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He rests a bit, then wakes up, and gives us food. In case my mother has not returned,

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we go there, we eat, we play a little.

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Oh, work on Monday, on Tuesday...

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Oh, skip every other day: one day yes, one day no... There would be more time.

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That's how I would like it.

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My dad has an office inside the house, it's nicely separated...

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So why doesn't he stay just with me? 

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He is going to move the office out of the house, because it's bad.

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I would like to travel more.

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But when we travel, he takes the computer and works even more.

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He gets nervous, wanting everyone to go to sleep soon, because otherwise he might get disturbed...

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So he likes it quite, but there are also times when he needs company.

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I tell him he shouldn't be so nervous.

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When I speak to him, he calms down. But then we end up doing what he wants. 

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 My mother gets home at around six o'clock.

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She watches a little TV and then falls asleep, because she's too tired.

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She is exhausted and I don't have much chance to talk to her. We don't have much contact.

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I would like to be with her more often, I miss her, and besides I don't have anything to do at home...

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For some people, being at home is cool. But I don't agree. 

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Not having anything to do is no fun. 

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I would like to travel, to celebrate something, for example her birthday or mine...

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to talk with her more,

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and to spend free time.

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On weekends I go to my dad's house. It's the only two days I get to see him.

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I play computer there, I play with him, or we go to some park or a mall.

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He doesn't do much, he just takes me to the places. 

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For example, if we go to the park, he just sits on a bench and I play with the toys.

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When we return to his house, there aren't many things to do, because there isn't much space. 

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Then I play computer all day long. 

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Or we go to the church service, but there is nothing to do there either. 

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I live with my mother. My father moved to Recife. 

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Oh, I miss him a lot. Every now and then he calls.

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When he is here, we take advantage of that. We only see him five days.

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He is only here for five days every two months. Then he goes back.

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He slimmed down a lot there...

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He leaves for work at four o'clock and returns at eleven. 

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Therefore, he has only about three hours  of rest per day. 

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The three hours he is at home are for sleeping, you see? 

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He works in a hotel.

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He works a lot there, I don't know...

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You have to choose: work or stay home. Heads up or suffering of hunger, you know?

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My mother gets home stressed and tired. 

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When she gets home, she is quarreling and mad at everyone. You can't do anything to satisfy her. 

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It's because of the persons who call her. 

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She works as a telephone-operator.

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We notice that, she is angry with us and we can't do anything right for her. 

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Well, if you want to work a lot, you can work. If you don't want it, you don't work. 

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But I think, you should just work enough for living. 

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The excess of work causes stress. You forget about the family...

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... about the most important things. You are only thinking of work. Work, work, work. 

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Sometimes I feel lonely without them and their caring...

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Oh, she cleans things up all day. When she leaves, she tells us what to do or not. 

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To lock the door and to do things straight away.

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Sometimes she comes back angry, exhausted, and fights with us. 

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She is angry because of the excausting work and then she is quarreling with us..

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She gets back very tired and upset.

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I prefer that she works, because she has to buy everything.

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When she is at work, there is no fighting at home. When she is home, she is quarreling with us.

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She complains about backache, sometimes she has fever, or a headache. 

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I feel sorry for her, I feel really bad.

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I feel as if I was her, as if her feelings were mine. I feel what she feels. 

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She should work less instead of leaving early in the morning and coming back at night. 

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She should come back at midday and rest more instead of being in the sun all day.

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She only has a short lunch break.

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She works in a shed, leaves early and returns late at night. 

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Then we can't do anything together because the children are already sleeping. 

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Sometimes she doesn't work on Saturdays, and normally Sunday is her day off.

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And then there is time, not enough, but we can talk. 

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At least on her days off my mom can give comfort, love to her children and encourage us.

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She gets home around half past ten or ten.

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I'm already sleeping by that time, but I think she works even more...

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she washes the clothes, she writes...

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I think she goes to bed at midnight or one o'clock. 

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Well, she should work a little less, to stay a little more with me – the family is important too. 

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I would like to talk about what I feel and to play, too.

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I am very proud. 

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She works, she struggles to spend time with me, she gives her best to help me. 

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She really wants to help me with everything. 

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What would your son/daughter say about your work, your life, and your health? 

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Choose an option: Earn the same salary working half of your actual working hours 

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Earn twice the salary working your actual working hours

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Kollektive Reflexion

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This is the objective of the Audiovisual Interactive Tool (Raio),

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a tool designed to promote worker's reflection on issues related to their life,

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health, and work, broadening the perspective on health. 

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By provocation Raio intends to create spaces for collective reflection, 

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in order to challenge the common sense. 

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How is your body?

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Mapping is a participatory research model adopted by the VidaViva network.

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It is designed to identify existing problems in body, work and life.

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The research is divided into five phases: 

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- Body Mapping, where workers identify problems affecting their health 

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- Workplace Mapping, where workers analyze their workplace in detail

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and identify the relation between their illness and their work

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- "Our world" Mapping, that allows workers to discuss the effects of work in each one's life

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- Prioritization of problems which must be negotiated in order to improve the workplace

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- Action plan, where workers collectively define their proposed solutions to the problems raised.

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Participatory research helps breaking the silence between the workers 

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and allows them to build and develop actions in the workplace.

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Mapping allows workers to do away with the misconception of illness as an individual problem, and most importantly: 

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it is up to the workers to examine their workplaces, define the problems related to their health, 

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and identify their reasons, by establishing the relation between falling ill and work.

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STRENGHTENING SHOP FLOOR ORGANIZATION

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Another educational instrument developed by the VidaViva network is a health workshop. 

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It is intended to encourage workers' reflection on the occurrence of workplace accidents 

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and the role of health and safety commissions,

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in order to extend their possibilities to intervene and organize workers. 

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Using comics, the health workshop deconstructs the argument that workers are to blame for accidents, 

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and denounces the assumption that illness is an individual matter.

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It also shows how companies rather manage accidents than effectively invest 

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in health and safety. 

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Furthermore, workers reflect on the need to fight for collective protection in the workplace.

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Production targets. Fast pace. Harassment by bosses. Pressure to perform.

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Competition among colleagues. Threat of unemployment. Falling ill. Resistance. 

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These stories are reported by workers in photo exhibitions called "Vivências" (life stories).

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The stories unite, excite, and awaken consciousness.

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"Life stories" make us realise that work must be (re)thought, and actions collectively developed

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if we want to change reality.

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The exhibition "life stories" enables us to create a common identity between workers from different sectors,

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breaking with the false belief that getting sick at work is an individual issue. 

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By exchange between different realities, workers' situation becomes public and provides a common basis for protest.

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Union Action Forum

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The Union Action Forum was created to help unions and workers to achieve changes at work.

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Through the Forum, unions can share concrete practices that led to changes in favour of workers.

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They can compare workplaces according to certain criteria, 

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such as work pace, work overload, analysis of a specific workplace, working times, control, etc.

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First, a concrete problematic workplace or form of work organization is detected.

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The network seeks to identify trade unions with experience 

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of similar workplaces or work organizations. 

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Then, the network seeks to organize seminars, and national and international exchanges

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to promote an exchange of experiences and possible solutions.

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Collective Building within the International Network

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The VidaViva network reaches across borders. 

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Experiences similar to those of Brazil are being developed in countries like 

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Mozambique, Germany, Mexico and South Africa. 

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In the future, they will also be developed in other countries where activities of Tie Global exist,

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always based on local realities and workers' concrete experiences. 

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The VivaVida concept of building and action is centered on the the creation of collective spaces,

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where workers can valorize, reflect and articulate their knowledge and experiences, 

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and then develop actions based on the problems raised.

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We believe that workers' experiences form the best tool for creating a new consciousness 

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and building a new form of action.