Conflicts over the right to stability of metalworkers diseased from work in the Campinas region, São Paulo, Brazil

The objective is to discuss conflicts in work and health-disease processes related to the job stability of metalworkers with work restrictions in the region of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. The methodology, characterized as knowledge’s shared construction, included interviews, document analysis and participant observation, between 2019-2022. The results point to companies’ actions to promote the mischaracterization of the link between work and illness, preventing the access to stability and dismiss sick workers. Workers experience this process painfully, but, with labor union support, they develop forms of resistance aiming at maintain stability and protecting health. The study contributes to health and social protection policies as it highlights the collective dimension of the health-disease’s determination through work, as well as the necessity to mobilize different institutions and agents in the production of knowledge and actions to social struggle for health.