The union structure and the challenges for the Colombian dockers workers in the XXI century

• Grant number: 15/10546-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: September 01, 2015
• End date: November 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Dornelis Carvalhal
• Grantee: Thiago Pereira de Barros
• Supervisor: Juan Carlos Celis Ospina
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UN), Colombia
• Associated to the scholarship: 14/01908-9 - DOCKERS THE PORT OF SANTOS/SP: A GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF LABOR, THE UNION AND MODERNIZATION OF PORTS, BP.MS

Abstract

Starting from the set of changes caused by disseminated work of the universe within the neoliberal recipe it is to check the procedurals that fall on workers, especially regarding forms of trade union organization and / or political and social matters express spatially and territorially in the Colombian case. Thus, we aim to exchange period in the Universidad Nacional de Colombia analyze the union structure of Colombia, as well as procedurals workers is currently suffering. In order to weave approaches and relations with Brazil, especially with regard to organization, strengths and challenges of workers in the XXI century. In this perspective, we will focus on the analysis of the workers and the workers' union in / from ports in Colombia. Soon, the probationary period will give us a theoretical and methodological deepening of the changes in the working world in the Colombian case.