A story that involves as its main players "workers" and "Walmart"
does not usually have a happy ending for labor, so the
counternarrative offered by Building Power from Below is must
reading for activists and union personnel as well as scholars. In
2008 Walmart acquired a controlling share in a large supermarket
chain in Santiago, Chile. As part of the deal Walmart had to accept
the unions that were already in place. Since then, Chilean retail
and warehouse workers have done something that has seemed
impossible for labor in the United States: they have organized even
more successful unions and negotiated unprecedented contracts with
Walmart. In Building Power from Below, Carolina Bank Munoz
attributes Chilean workers' success in challenging the world's
largest corporation to their organizations' commitment to union
democracy and building strategic capacity. Chilean workers have
spent years building grassroots organizations committed to
principles of union democracy. Retail workers' unions have less
structural power, but have significant associational and symbolic
power. Their most notable successes have been in fighting for
respect and dignity on the job. Warehouse workers by contrast have
substantial structural power and have achieved significant economic
gains. While the model in Chile cannot necessarily be reproduced in
different countries, we can gain insights from the Chilean workers'
approaches, tactics, and strategies.
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