The collection of cuts at the work of Porto Alegre is considered historical inheritance because it reflects the socio -economic context of the processes at different times. The mud is removed manually and should be until 2027. Better the shelves of nine meters full of documents of documents, Rosane Casanova still sees the mud that covers those stored in the first three meters.
The situation is due to the historical floods that hit Rio Grande do on one year ago, at the end of April 2024, and should continue for another two and a half years. The first visits of her and colleagues of the TrT (Court of Regional Labor) in Porto Alegre were not on foot, but in kayak and stadium stadium tables.
“The cleaning of all these processes is a work by Ant, which should be completed only at the end of 2027; what matters most is to guarantee the information and that the citizen can consult them again”, explains the judge, who today acts as coordinator of the Trot-Ting memory commission (Regional Court).
In office, it is one of the people head of the recovery of over one million causes of work that have spent a month submerged under the bars of Guaíba between May and June last year.
The judge responsible for the coordination of the rescue and restoration actions of the processes achieved by the water recalls the fears and precautions taken. “During the month of May [de 2024]As much as we were planning everything we would do with the file, we were focused on saving lives, “says Anita Lübbe.
He explains that they took more than a month to return to the General Archive, a space of three deposits located in the north of Porto Alegre and Salgado Filho airport. It was reopened only on October 21, 2024, almost six months after the biggest floods have already occurred in the state. Since then, the TRT team has been dedicated almost exclusively to the recovery of the over 3 million processes kept there.
From this inventory, a third has been submerged, most considered the commemorative inheritance of humanity. All those closed between 1935 and 2000 were recognized by the UNESCO world memory program due to its historical value, since the whole reflects socio -economic contexts of different eras. The certification was granted to ten courts in Brazil.
“These processes cannot be eliminated; they must be available, since they are the legacy of humanity, so the great concern at the moment is to preserve these and those who are still active in court”, explains Lübbe.
Despite the challenge and the risks, it says that so far no information on the already clean and health documents has been lost, which makes it optimistic.
Wash paper
Mask, laboratory coat and gloves are essential equipment in the environment. “In June, when we finally managed to enter here, we took water tests to see if there were microorganisms, if it was contaminated, and we noticed that there were many mushrooms in the documents and the air, it was very unhealthy,” says Casanova.
The threat of the loss of part of the collection, however, requires constant care. For Lübbe, the risk exists, but it is small in front of the positive scenario found so far. “We always check if a attacked mushroom, whether it has returned or not … I can also have one there, very dry, and in a moment no one can tell me that there is no reproduction of something”, says the judge. “There is still urgency, which always strengthens our attention.”
Protected and affected by the heat of the building, professionals sail over 6,000 m² of shelves of the two files of the file. The volumes of documents are sent to an attached shed, rented for this work, where they are washed still closed with water, soap, sponges and brushes when necessary.
With the file still underwater, in May 2024, the responsible team chose to take on a saving and restoration specialist of the documents. Professor Eutropio Bezerra already had experience in the restoration of flooded files in the north -est and has directed the washing, cleaning, drying, defaliation and digitization of processes.
Since most of the damage occurs on the covers, which are replaced, it remains in the external margins of the documents. They spend days drying the free space of the third deposit, which also received the investment of dehumidifiers and fans.
“As soon as we started the work, we called a company that accused 215 reais for the burden of processes only to dry and disinfection. Here we have 86,000 bales, which would cost almost $ 18.5 million”, estimate. “We have therefore chosen to do our … with everything we have acquired, with the intake of the specialist in repair, the microbiologist and more people to work here, we will spend a room of this value and deliver the washed, disinfected and digitized processes,” celebrates. Part of the money for work comes from the Superior Council of Justice of Labor (CSJ).
“We have an average demand from 50 to 60 requests per day of disqualification. For the postponement for retirement, a little social security or to proceed with the execution of a certain credit,” says Lübbe. The consultation of physical processes, which previously took about 20 days between the order and to be available for the parties, today it takes at least two months.
Manual work, tweezers and dryers
All the work, from the removal of the shelves to the final result, is manual, including the digitization produced after drying the leaves with the use of bobby pins and dryers. Then the drying drying is made in the real. For the digitization of each page, the Court has collaborated with Fene (National Federation of Education and Integration of Desking) who works with the help of a Libras translator.
The documents are distributed in three pavilions, in an area of three thousand square meters. Only those who are disruptive are digitizing. In the last year, about 96,000 processes have been cleaned and disinfected, waiting only for drying and digitization. The volume represents 8% of those that require hygiene. Currently, the team does not have a calculation of how many have been scanned.
Raw material of history
During May 2024, one in ten residents of Porto Alegre was lightless due to floods. However, it was not the first Blecate massif in the state capital. Between February and March 1946, a strike of miners paralyzed the thermoelectric generation of the city, leaving it dark.
In the same year, the miner and a former Bump of the Second World War Pedro Rodrigues de Almeida were threatened to be expelled from his home, owned by the mining company for which he worked in the Rio Grande Central Do Sul.
Surprised, at the time he took news: a lantern for the batteries received by the US military and turned on with it advanced against the 12 workers and 2 engineers who tried to remove the roof from the house. Confused the object with a grenade and fled, leaving the furniture that Almeida had just bought for his marriage in peace.
Stories like these emerged only thanks to the conservation of work files such as the court and which, before stopping at the deposit, survived fires and floods. “The story is built by the documents; the more you have, the more you know about your past … with such a scenario, we still work only with the fragments that survived and came to us”, complains of Clarice Speranza.
The historian specializes in the history of work and has also seen how terrible what happened with the TRT Shed is, as well as the many personal tragedies of students and relatives.
“This documentation allows you to access something very difficult for US historians, which is to understand how a normal worker develops daily, family members, cultural relationships; conflicts and forms of mobilization”, explains the professor of Ufrgs (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul).
“The trajectories of these people are the most important, because it is in these relationships that the history of Brazil is established, not only in the history of great men.”
Source: Terra
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