“We fight against the unión”. An ethnography of workers' antagonism to “protection” unions in Mexico
Journal Title: Revista de Estudios Marítimos y Sociales - Year 2016, Vol 9, Issue 10
Abstract
In this paper I will argue that industrial relations in Mexico are increasingly characterized by antiunion struggles, whose main objective is the democratization of union relations. This hypothesis relies on the research I have been working on the last three years, with workers of three companies located on U.S. Mexican border. I lived with workers for one year alongside their families, participating in their daily activities, conducting in-depth interviews and coordinating focus groups relating to union relations. The workers’ experience outlines the repression and invisibilization of labor conflicts exerted by the alliance of unions, government and press. I will suggest that the conflict, although fragmented, goes beyond the days of the strikes, as it is implicit in the hegemonic model of the management of industrial relations in the country. The participation in these struggles, the interiorization of experiences of insubordination and confrontation with union authority has been mobilized in a peculiar process of political subjectivation, which shapes workers’ antagonism to employer protection unions in Mexico.
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Paolo Marinaro
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