Collado 2010

• Introduction
• unions were weakened in the 1990s, and they seemed even worse off since the social movements that grew in the 2000s did so thanks to the same deindustrialization that weakened the unions! (171)
• the study focuses a on the new significance/importance/change in union practices (172)
• El sindicalismo en Argentina
• the crisis of political representation in the 1990s was also one that hurt uniosn a great deal, since they were supposed to be a political representation group for workers (172-173)
• peronist and corporatist unions became hegemonic (173-174)
• early on unions lost their autonomy, thanks to interventions (174)
• the union movement in Argentina has demonstrated an impressive ability to mobilize even when the military was trying to crush them (175)
• La refundacion de las parcticas sindicales y su resignificacion
• CTA and MTA were new arrivals, efforts to get back to the combativeness of unions int eh 1960s (178)
• CTA states that is is necessary to have autonomy from the state, business owners, political parties, and to value union unity and ethics (178-179)
• with the founding of the CTA, the unions withi teh new confederation needed to do some internal restructuring to improve internal democracy, which faced some obstacles (179)
• this article looks a the ATE in Medoza
• the tension between old bureaucratic leaders and new democracy, and the disruptive potential of these changes
• La Provicnia de Mendoza en el context nacional\
• state workers have very diverse jobs (180)
• lots of restructuring of the state employment during the 1990s, most of it mkaing owrk harder
• there were lots of protests against this restructuring (181)
• but the ATE lost most of these fights, and saw a lot of disaffiliation of union members (182)
• after 2001-2, workers became the main protagonists of social movmenets, no the unemp[loyed (184)
• El sindicalismo en renovacion
• important challenges to the union: (184)
• old delegtimization they have to overcome
• newly atomized workers
• to fight delegitimization, the union refounded itself on democratic and autonomous principles
• started electiosn and things that explicitly trie dot reonnect to the base
• new group of leaders elected in this process (185)
• joined a multisectoral movement in 2008, which had unions, social movements, student groups, etc., which held marches against tightening of protest laws and against increase in prices of public services (186)
• the unions repertoire of action has come ot included piquetes, territorialization, and attempts to be visible, int eh streets (186)
• as part of its dynamic amplification of particiaption, unions have taken to being groups of political formation for their members 9187)
• delegates at the groudn level play an important part in this revitalization (188)
• barriers:
• the meritocratic competition between member 
• public helath owrkers are told their are "responsible" for the health of their patients, and that striking would be a bad thing for the patients (188-189)
• fear that their jobs are vulnerable (189)
•  this fear can lead to inaction, and dlegates face a lot of fear among their constituents
• COnclusions
• this union did a lot of great stuff, is really becoming dynamic
• but internal issues and lack of ties between workers still hinders the union