Los sindicatos de los trabajadores 'en tierra' de la industria pesquera en Argentina: características, historias y regiones

Abstract

We describe the history and characterize the unions that integrate the workers of the processing on land of the Argentine fishing industry. The Sindicato Obrero de la Industria del Pescado (SOIP) in the province of Buenos Aires, and the Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Industria de la Alimentación (STIA) in the Patagonia, represent these workers.We are interested in recognizing their specificities, their paths and the reasons that explain the regional fragmentation of the union representation of this working group. We focus the observation in the port city of Mar de Plata and in northeastern Chubut (core key fishing in Argentina). We work with interviews, bibliographic systematization and journalistic, officials, unions and business sources. It is evidenced that the territorial division creates difficulties to conquer their labor claims, at the same time that organizational transformations are highlighted in the work process (due to changes in the target species) and of the gender composition in some of the unions.

Keywords

• Mar del Plata
• Industrial Fisheries
• Land Processing
• Chubut