ILPC 2026

 The temporary dock workers and union action: the case of northern Chile.

This presentation aims to analyze the strike from the perspective of a port federation in northern Chile, which in the context of the "Port Work crisis”, has managed to reinvent its ability to mobilize trade unions. In general, the characteristics of the labor conflict of eventual dock workers place these workers in a context of particular contradiction between the conditions of employment (quality of "eventual") and the ability of the trade union organization to face the conflict. Leaving them in a "negotiation space" that does not contemplate the law, but that allows them to advance in salary without social rights. This presentation will analyze two dimensions of port conflict: the conditions of temporary port work at a structural level, and the repertoires of union action and agency that characterize the strike of this federation. This in order to characterize the port labor conflict, from its conditions and repertoires to the consequences expressed in terms of salary and rights.