TRADE UNION EXPERIENCES IN FORMALIZATION through organizing and social dialogue in Latin America & the Caribbean Produced with the support of: TRADE UNION Oficina de EXPERIENCES IN Actividades para Trabajadores (ACTRAV) FORMALIZATION through organizing and social dialogue in Latin America & the Caribbean Production TUCA EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT TUCA President Hassan Yussuff TRADE UNION Depuly President Francisca Jimenez CONFEDERATION OF Depuly President Toni Moore THE AMERICAS Secretary General Víctor Báez Mosqueira Secretary for Trade Union Policy & Education Amanda Claribel Villatoro ILO Secretary for Economic Policy & Sustainable Development Rafael Freire Neto InternacionaL Secretary for Social Policy Laerte Teixeira da Costa LABour orGaniZation Trade Union Experiences in Formalization Through Organizing and Social Dialogue in Latin America & the Caribbean 1era edición octubre 2015 2da edición junio 2016 Publication & Institutional Coordination Team Iván González Alvarado Compilation & Editing Alvaro Orsatti Isamar Escalona Traduction Victoria V Brown Graphic Project, Cover & Layout Cesar Habert Paciornik • HP Design • [email protected] MAIN OFFICES BRAZIL Rua Formosa, 367, 4º andar, Cjto. 450, Centro, São-Paulo/SP, Brazil CEP 01049-000 Tel. + 55 11 2104 0750 • Fax + 55 11 2104 0751 [email protected] • www.TUCA-csi.org COSta RICA Sabana Norte, del Restaurant El Chicote, 100 mts., Norte y 75 mts. Oeste. San José, Costa Rica Apartado Postal 1577-2050 Tels. 506 2291 7900/ 506 2291-790 • Fax 506 2291 7898 [email protected] • www.TUCA-csi.org ÍNDICE 08 PRESENTATION 08 Laerte Teixeira da Costa TUCA 09 Amanda Villatoro TUCA 11 3th Congress of TUCA - Resolution 09 Workers in precarious and informal situations I THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT OF CENTRAL AMERICA, 28 MEXICO, PANAMA AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 30 COSTA RICA CTMC/FENATSEA Organizing the informal sector in Costa Rica. Randall Zuñiga Barboza 33 EL SALVADOR Special law for self-employed workers. The CATS, CSTS & CTD Project. Fausto Pagés Guzmán 39 EL SALVADOR CATS Organizing and legislative projects for workers of the informal economy in El Salvador. William Bado Guzmán 43 EL SALVADOR CTD/FESTIVES The government as “employer” of workers in the informal economy. José María Amaya y José Herminio Díaz 47 GUATEMALA CGTG Organizing and defense of self-employment in the CGTG. Jorge Grigera y Victoriano Zacarías 51 GUATEMALA CUSG Experiences supporting workers of the informal sector in the CUSG. Carlos Mancilla 53 GUATEMALA FENTRAVIG Organizing and negotiation of self-employed workers into a new Federation. Jorge Peralta 55 GUATEMALA UNSITRAGUA Experiences of UNSITRAGUA addressing informality. Jorge Estrada 57 HONDURAS CGT, CTH y CUTH Law regulating self-employed workers. Rafael Blancas Chauca 63 HONDURAS CTH/ANAVIH The CTH and union work to address informality. Luis Alonso Rivera 67 HONDURAS CUTH/FOTSSIEH Organizing and negotiation in the FOTSSIEH of Honduras. Vilma Arévalo 69 MEXICO CROM Organizing and negotiation in the Mexican Tianguis. Cirilo Morales 72 MEXICO CROC/FNOTNA The strategy for non-salaried workers of the CROC. Gilberto Vázquez Muro 75 MEXICO CTM Organizing workers of the informal sector in the Mexican CTM. Pedro Alberto Salazar Muciño 79 MEXICO UNT Reflections and experiences of the UNT on informality. Jose Olvera 85 MEXICO FAT Fighting informality is actually the struggle for decent work. Alfredo Domínguez NICARAGUA FNT/CTCP Development strategy for self-employed 90 workers in Nicaragua. Adrián Martínez 100 PANAMA CONUSI Self-employment in the experience and practice of the CONUSI. Gabriel Castillo 102 PANAMA CTRP/SIMBUTIS Organizing and negotiation of street vendors in Panama City. Juan Jiménez 6 Trade Union Experiences in Formalization 104 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC CASC Multiple routes of trade union action for informal workers. Gabriel del Río y Francisca Jiménez de Toledado 110 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC CNTD Strategies for workers of the informal sector in the Dominican Republic. Alberto Santana 114 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC CNUS/FENATREINCA Organizing informal work in the Dominican CNUS. Pedro Martínez Rodríguez 119 II ANDEAN COUNTRIES 120 COLOMBIA CGT Direct membership in the Colombian CGT. Strategy for coverage of self-employment. Julio Roberto Gómez y Miriam Luz Triana 124 COLOMBIA CTC Trade union action against informality in the CTC. Nohora Stella Tovar COLOMBIA CUT/UGT-I On progress in the fight for the democratic use of public spaces, the unity 128 of workers and the right to work in Colombia. Brief History of the UGT-I. Pedro Luis Ramírez 133 PERU CUT/FEDEVAL Women and Self-Employment in Peru. Erodita Chávez de Díaz 135 PERU CUT/FETTRAMAP Organizing and collective bargaining of self-regulated land stevedores and drivers of Peru. Guillermo Onofre 142 VENEZUELA ASI/ASOTRACEN Union action for informal workers in Venezuela. Aída Martínez 144 VENEZUELA CTV/FUTRAND Representation of non-dependent workers in Venezuela. Blanca Llerena 152 III SOUTHERN CONE COUNTRIES 154 ARGENTINA SIVARA Organizing street vendors in Argentina. Oscar Silva 157 ARGENTINA CTA AUTÓnoma Organizing self-employment in the CTA. Daniel Jorajuría BRAZIL UGT /FENAMEI Strategies to organize informal workers in the National Federation of 161 Individual Micro-Entrepreneurs of Brazil. José Artur Aguiar y Janete Pereira da Silva de Souza 163 CHILE CUT/SINTRALOC Agreements with the government for public transportation vendors. Hardy Vallejos 165 PARAGUAY CNT Organizing urban self-employed workers and fishermen/women in Paraguay. Gumercindo Galeano, Bernardo Zárate y Pedro Parra 168 PARAGUAY CUT-A Labor standards for self-employment, the current scenario and the 1992 project. Bernardo Rojas 172 URUGUAY ERT-BPS/PIT-CNT Unified tax regime for street vendors in Uruguay. Ariel Ferrari Through Organizing and Social Dialogue in Latin America & the Caribbean 7 PRESENTATION Laerte Teixeira da Costa TUCA s of its inception in 2008, the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA) has carried out continuous efforts in relation to job insecurity and job Ainformality, based on three pillars:: • Precarious paid labor, particularly under outsourcing regimes by hiring com- panies and using temporary work agencies; • paid home-based work; • self-employment (also called autonomous, independent, freelance work) in the “informal sector”. Institutionally, these actions have been based on two structures: • The Informal Economy Program of the Secretariat for Social Policy (see article in this publication • The Working Group on Trade-Union Self-Reform (WGSR), which included this issue on its agenda and in the labor collectives that are important for the organization. Based on these two spaces, there has been a significant recovery of trade union experiences in organizing and social dialogue on self-employment, which have been discussed in various TUCA communications and publications. In 2013 the TUCA undertook a systematic strategy of recording such experiences in articles written by the protagonists themselves, both leaders and advisors. For this purpose, two main routes were used: • Surveys during face-to-face meetings (meeting of WGSR-CJT (Continental Ju- ridical Team) in Sao Paulo, October 2013, TUCA Executive Councils, XVIII ILO American Conference in 2014, other ILO activities) • Request for new reports and updates of existing articles. In addition, materials of the WGSR that were already available were used, as well as the TUCA-USO publication and another StreetNet compilation (2014). The TUCA presented the virtual format of the compilation during the 103rd and 104th ILO Conferences (Geneva, June 2014 and June 2015), in connection with the 8 Trade Union Experiences in Formalization respective negotiations on the Recommendation on the transition from the infor- mal to the formal economy. Furthermore, in early 2014 during preparations for the 103rd ILO Conference, with support from ACTRAV-CFT, the TUCA published “Trade union approaches to informality”; then in early 2015, as part of the Campaign on Freedom of Associa- tion, Collective Bargaining and Trade Union Self-Reform, with support from ILO- ACTRAV, published a systematization of experiences “Formalization through union organizing and social dialogue of self-employment Latin America & the Caribbean”. In July 2015, the trade union movement and the other two tripartite actors can rely on Recommendation 204, which provides significant guidelines for future work. In particular, we are pleased because the recommendation includes the dimen- sion discussed in said articles: the central importance of trade union organizing and social dialogue (including collective bargaining processes) for the formaliza- tion of the economy and informal employment. This fully justifies the publication of these articles of the trade union movement, an initiative that was supported by ILO-ACTRAV as recognition that this dimension was included in the contents of the Recommendation. The publication also includes the institutional presentation on the issue by the TUCA during the XVIII ILO American Meeting to promote the position of our orga- nization and affiliates in the ILO. CSA Trade Union Confederation of the Americas Intervention at the 18th American Regional Meeting on “Decent Work, Labor Rights, Social Inclusion and Productivity. Challenges of the XXI Century.” Lima, October 13-16, 2014 Panel The path to EQuitY: from the informal to the formal economY Amanda Villatoro1 Secretary for Trade Union Policy & Education y intervention will focus on the reflections to address Integrated Policies to