Las huelgas de los sindicatos obreros en Cuenca (1984-2000): una revisión documental de sus logros y fracasos

Abstract

The Ecuadorian labor movement has maintained a wide legacy of victories in the consolidation of labor rights from its origins. For that reason, its combative character has been the main pressure tool, which placed it as a fundamental voice for protest against social injustices. However, this situation was strongly weak at the beginning of the 1980s when successive democratic governments imposed a strong neoliberal state project, which brought labor flexibility laws. Jointly, with the delegitimization of the socialism on the ideological plan, this sector saw its decline with a progressive loss of power and social acceptance until being replaced by new strongly consolidated groups such as indigenous movement. In this context, Cuenca became an agent of social and worker resistance faced with an irreducible process of national crisis. The multiple mobilizations between 1984 and 2000 evidenced this fight, especially popular discontent. In this way, the view and the discourse of trade unionism through the press give a sample of what the role was assumed in these conflictive moments. In this way, not only their direct actions enter as a point of review, but also their perception of themselves in the face of power, their relationship with different social movements and those internal conflicts weakened them. These are found in elements that allow the understanding of people in the movement, their crisis and resistance. That is, your achievements and failures