Challenges in advocating recognition and protection among delivery platform workers across the Americas: cases from Argentina, Chile, Mexico and the US

María Figueroa and María Eugenia Rodríguez

Chapter 12 in The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work, 2025, pp 208-233 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter delves into the strategic approaches employed by trade unions and worker organisations in advocating fair labour conditions among platform food couriers. The focus extends across the United States and three Latin American countries – Argentina, Chile and Mexico. The cases illustrate how national and subnational legal frameworks, the structure of the industry and the presence of migrant workers influence worker strategies for improving their working conditions. Research confirms the arguments of previous analyses that platform worker organising is focused on the legal enactment of labour rights via the building and leveraging of associational power. Worker organisations have taken this approach because platform couriers do not have collective bargaining rights under existing institutional frameworks. The chapter also finds that there are potential power resources that platform couriers can leverage to achieve the legal enactment of their rights at work.

Keywords: Platform workers; Legal enactment; Labour conditions; Trade unions; Collective bargaining; Power resources (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035321131
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