Trajtemberg, Senen Gonzalez, Borroni, Pontoni 2012

• What is the scope of union representation at the level of the workplace? (4)
• the strong legal framework conditions but does not determine union representation on the shopfloor, other factors come into play
• debates about representation in Argentina: juridical and historical-sociological
• juridical
• representation versus representativeness (7)
• idea that unions should be democratic is representation
• BUT they also tacitly represent non-afilliated workers, so they have to keep them in mind while bargaining, is representividad (8)
• all from Ermida 993
• union can be representatives, but it also has to have the power to demand persnoaria gremial, which may cause destruction of some representativenss (9)
• sociologia hisotirica
• looks more at bureaucratization
• wokrplace delegate can try to minimize distance between the macro level union and the micro level workers through his actions (11)
• issues of representation and representitiveness challenge how to correctly unite differnet levels of uniosn to work for workers! (13)
• data from 2008 survey---seems like a survey of managers
• overall unionization rate was 37% (of population?)
• half of these people were in unions where less that 25% of workers in the plant were unionized
• When a delegado is present, the unioni rate is 49.4%, when there is no delegado, 30.3%
• most unionized workers are in large enterprises
• 3 types of union representation (workers charactersitics)
• Union rep mediated by institutions (18)
• 36% of workers
• 60% are in small shops (less than 50 employees)
• most are covered by a collective contract, probably not a lot of hierarchical positions
•  no local union representatives and no collective conflicts
• no strogn union presence, but are still covered by a contract and are affiliated with a union
• Consolidated Unionism (19)
• 36%
• large establishments
• most of these workers are in a place covered by a collective bargaining contract
• 93% have delegados
• most likely to have collective conflict
• strong union presence, fight out contracts
• Weak union representation
• 28%
• service industry, often subcontractors
• these people are on the margins of collective contracts
• 34% of businesses in the survey negotiated a clause about local union reps between 2007 and 2011...presumably ot make sure they are there, in the plan,t being stewards
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