The aim was to analyze the possible condition of fear experienced regarding to solidarity and to resistance. The collectiveness history of meat plants workers from the Western region of Santa Catarina State was reviewed emphasizing the 90´s flexible management style, and their fight process for legitimate labor union representativeness, integrating the public sector and social movements. Bibliographical and documental research was carried out along with participative research, on behalf of the authors experience on activities promoted by this labor union. The analysis resulted, on one hand, on the understanding that the struggle of the meat plant workers of Chapecó region / SC was mainly for controlling of the work process, i.e., the normalization of the working hours, the shifts, breaks and room temperature. And on the other hand, this research showed that the word fear repeatedly, expresses a certain relation with their future death possibilities, indicating the need of further investigations comprising psychopathology.
fear; work psychology; modern existentialism; psychodynamic work; psychopathology