The labor conflict reached its highest point in the last 20 years last year, reported the Chamber of Commerce and Services of Uruguay (CCySUy), which highlighted that it even surpassed the year 2015 “which was notably conflictive.”
He global conflict index – prepared by the Department of Social Psychology and Work of the UCUDAL and which relates the days and hours of work lost due to conflicts with those that could normally have been worked – showed an increase of 14.43% in 2023 compared to the previous year. Compared to 2015, the increase was 2.44%.
A breakdown of the Chamber’s labor conflict indicator showed that between January 1 and November 30, 2023, 118 conflicts with interruption of activities were recorded, including 5 general strikeswhich resulted in the loss of 1,564,621 working days and the participation of 1,700,870 workers.
19% of the total conflicts corresponded to 22 workplace occupations. “This indicates that, despite the implementation of the Urgent Consideration Law (LUC)“The workers continued to carry out occupations,” the CCySUy highlights in its report.
The questions to the social security reformwith the plebiscite promoted by the PIT-CNTand the rejection of the educational reform are the main aspects that will generate labor conflict this year, stipulates the organization.
“The need to deepen the discussion on the organization of work, new content in the Collective negotiation and innovative forms of vindication to develop healthy labor relations in a context of accelerated changes,” he concludes.
Source: Ambito
