Chilean Labor Reform, is it a concrete advance for the unionism or a continuation renewed of the Labor Plan imposed by the Military Dictatorship?

Abstract

The labor policies of the Chilean dictatorship of a meaningful and systematic way debilitated to the union movement harming, of a way without precedents, all the workers. This also was meaning, that with the return to the democracy in the year 1990, there would be many task for doing to try to revitalize to the unionism depending on all the losses that he had suffered in the previous political period. After 24 years of having come back to the democracy, the second program of government of the current President Michelle Bachelet (2014-2018), she thought a Project of Labor Reform that had an area in: " strengthening and modernization of the labor relations and collective rights ", and he was considering two big axes: 1) to extend and to improve the quality of the Collective bargaining and 2) to strengthen the union participation, promoting a union representative movement and of quality. Of this form, an almost natural question that arises, is if this project of reform, today already law of the Republic, managed to overcome the labor plan imposed by the military dictatorship. For these effects, there was realized a detailed analysis of the principal aspects that would realize of an advance for the unionism and the hard-working Chilean class.