The workers of the State against the State. The union conflict in the Public Administration during the post-dictatorship Chile

Abstract

The objective of the article is to explore in an exploratory way the union action of state workers during the post-dictatorial Chile government. We consider relevant to investigate from case studies, the action developed by groups of public workers, strongly affected by the phenomena of outsourcing, precarization and subcontracting, since they would show on the one hand the lack of representativeness of traditional unions of the public sector and on the other, a process of generational change that would give rise to new leaderships and forms of union political participation based on the principle of autonomy and democracy at the grassroots level.