The union presence and the crises in the Kingdom of Spain: 1975-1985 and 2008-2015

Abstract

The current unstable political situation causes both keen to establish changes in our complex socio-political system as proponent model under which recovered democracy during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Disputes only the polls decanted. In building the model involved the question, then, newly legalized unions majority. That is why it calls attention that the central cited have not been claimed by any of the groups favourable to the revision. In response analyse the role played by the majority unionism in the transformations that have been operating on the Spanish industrial relations System.
We studied the behavior of social dialogue in the two major crisis that has faced and still faces, the Kingdom of Spain, to understand such complex situations where the use of social dialogue allowed reflect the power and strategies of each of the participants. The first took place during the decade of 1975-1985, starting model «precarious corporatism». Bet on which he collaborated class unionism through the construction of «Ente Efficient». Union model, under severe infighting, participated in major accords and agreements signed between 1979 and 1984, an institutional unionism born with great socio-political presence. Lights trying to hide the shadows of failure that resulted from its origins social dialogue, as evidenced by the loss of purchasing power accumulated since.
La presencia sindical y las crisis en el Estado español: 1975-1985 y 2008-2015 The second is the current crisis where unions have been subjected to numerous pressures, internal and external, that have led to the limit in its approach to exchange low for highly precarious. This situation partly explains the difficulty of the choice of model of union action: to have spaces in collective bargaining to enter the «negotiated» precarious wages and working conditions or institutionally be considered as residual?. Complexity increased by the total orientation of Spanish governments towards meeting international markets.
Drama was causing for almost its constitution. Situation would explain, at least in part, ease encountered by financial agents to promote household debt by providing the necessary credit to support consumption prevented the degradation of the level of rents that historically albeit with limitations, contributed their union representatives. Failure that has caused these faults supports, are in all areas. In response, voices calling for a paradigm shift arise assayed new strategies and union agents. In this case the clearest example that not alone, is the Somos, union lies in the shadow of the phenomenon Podemos. New social agent which brings us to issues necessary for pressing, is it possible to generate a new «digital class consciousness» one to replace industrial?, a union to assume the above contradictions and collect necessary discomfort to follow participating in the new agreement?