Labor or political conflict? The peer bargaining of Teamsters in the return of neoliberalism to Argentina (2015-2019)

Authors

  • Gabriela Llamosas CONICET. Escuela Interdisciplinaria de Altos Estudios Sociales. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Argentina.

Keywords:

Teamsters, Wage Demands, Political Conflict, social mobilizations, labor conflict

Abstract

In this article I analyse the wage demands and the joint agreements of the Teamsters during the period of the Cambiemos alliance government. I approach the concepts of labour conflict and political conflict with the aim of analysing wage disputes in the context in which they occurred. The Teamsters played a key role in the conflict of the period studied, on the one hand, for its strategic place in the country’s economy, and on the other hand, for leading a sector of trade unionism nucleated in the Frente Sindical Para el Modelo Nacional. Throughout the article I try to demonstrate that the results of sectoral wage negotiations are linked to the political conflict between the government and the trade union, so that during the entire period of Mauricio Macri's government two significant moments can be distinguished with regard to the demands and salary negotiations of the studied sector.

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Published

2025-07-16

How to Cite

Llamosas, G. (2025). Labor or political conflict? The peer bargaining of Teamsters in the return of neoliberalism to Argentina (2015-2019). Cuadernos De Economía Crítica, 11(22), 117-137. Retrieved from https://cec.sociedadeconomiacritica.org/index.php/cec/article/view/376

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 22 (2025): Dossier: “Neoliberal projects, sectorial dynamics and political-union organization in recent Argentina”.

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