Laboreal (Jul 2019)

Gestión del riesgo y relaciones laborales en la industria de pasta de celulosa en el Uruguay

  • Francisco Pucci,
  • Soledad Nión,
  • Valentina Pereyra

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4000/laboreal.1657
Journal volume & issue
Vol. XV, no. 1

Abstract

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The work intends to make a study of two cellulose pulp production plants that have had a high impact on the Uruguayan industrial reality. Both plants of international origin, with important differences in the operation of their parent companies, are considered as examples of HRO models in the national industrial production. The type of automated technology implemented has significantly reduced the classic risks of this work. The hypothesis that is sustained in this paper is that these models require for their implementation a model of labor relations different from that which prevails in most of the national companies. The high safety conditions that are developed in the sector are based on a strategy of permanent dialogue on the part of management with a union with a strong corporate orientation, which prioritizes economic goals and tends to reduce the ideological component in its forms of action.

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