The Trade Union Confederation of the Americas is analytically interesting because international trade unions have promoted the framework of a "just transition" to protect workers' rights during the shift to sustainable energy and the response to climate change and because the confederation has undertaken something of a "Latin-Americanization" of the just-transition notion that is nurtured by the environmental/territorial turn of social struggles on the continent. The current convergence between unions and social movements (peasant, feminist, environmentalist) has contributed to an important renewal of the union movement in Latin American environmental matters. La Confederacion Sindical de las Americas reviste interes analitico porque las organizaciones sindicales internacionales promovieron una "transicion justa" para resituar y visibilizar a los trabajadores en las negociaciones multilaterales del clima y procesos de transicion energetica y porque la confederacion ha emprendido una "latinoamericanizacion" de la nocion de la "transicion justa" nutrida de un giro eco-territorial de las luchas sociales en el continente. El actual proceso de convergencia entre sindicatos y movimientos sociales (campesinos, feministas, ambientalistas) ha contribuido a una importante renovacion de la narrativa del movimiento sindical en materia medioambiental en America Latina.
1.Gen Sarmiento Natl Univ, Los Polvorines, Argentina 2.Argentinas Natl Council Sci & Tech Res, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
Recommended Citation:
Anigstein, Cecilia,Wyczykier, Gabriela. Union Actors and Socio-environmental Problems: The Trade Union Confederation of the Americas[J]. LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES,2019-01-01