Advanced Diploma in Trade Unionism, Leadership and Gender in Latin America

The Advanced Diploma in Trade Unionism, Leadership, and Gender in Latin America aims to provide theoretical and practical tools for strengthening the leadership of women and diverse groups within labor organizations. This training can be applied in context within the trade union movement and the workplace to build spaces of equality and protection against violence, and to promote the rights of women and diverse groups. It is designed for a broad audience, including undergraduate and graduate university students, trade unionists, activists, and social and political advocates.

Trade unions in Latin America play an undeniably central role in protecting and expanding social and labor rights and, as social actors, have a considerable impact on the organization of social and economic life, and therefore, on power relations. Analyzing trade unions from a gender and intersectional perspective requires recognizing these power relations (based on class, gender, race, and ethnicity) that are interwoven within the social structures of work. In recent years, we have witnessed a resurgence of activism that challenges the capitalist-patriarchal order and brings to light gender inequalities in the world of work and unions, with progress in the recognition of rights and equality policies. However, in terms of labor participation, economic redistribution, and political power, progress remains limited.

The Advanced Diploma in Trade Unionism, Leadership, and Gender in Latin America aims to influence this structure by training workers to build equitable workplaces, protect them from violence, and promote and expand their rights. In this sense, it proposes to strengthen the leadership of women and gender-diverse trade unionists, promote equal participation in union and workplace spaces, and develop non-sexist male role models to achieve higher levels of representation and recognition. This seeks to advance towards new forms of leadership based on experiences of collective, community-based, and grassroots organizing, enabling a democratizing impact on the entire trade union organization. To this end, the content of the Advanced Diploma incorporates a cross-cutting gender perspective on crucial topics for union training and leadership development, thus consolidating a lasting agenda for the protection and expansion of rights in times of global capitalism and accumulation models with conservative and concentrated biases.

GENERAL PURPOSE

To train workers on gender and diversity issues to strengthen leadership and activism from a feminist and intersectional political perspective in trade union organizations and workplaces.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

1. Acquire general knowledge about gender and feminism.
2. Analyze social and gender inequalities in the world of work in Latin America.
3. Develop theoretical and practical tools for a critical analysis of the recent history and current scenario of trade unionism in Latin America.
4. To deepen the articulation between trade union organizations and feminist activists.
5. Promote transformation agendas within unions from a feminist perspective.
6. To strengthen the union action of women and diverse groups to promote new forms of leadership.

The Higher Diploma in Trade Unionism, Leadership and Gender in Latin America is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students; teachers at all levels; activists and members of trade union organizations, social movements and political parties; public officials; members and managers of non-governmental organizations and professionals interested in the subject.

• Estela Díaz (Minister of Women, Gender Policies and Sexual Diversity of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Claudia Ormaechea (Secretary of Human Rights, Gender and Equality of the Banking Association – National Deputy for the Frente de Todos, Argentina)
• Yamile Socolovsky (Central Workers' Union of Argentina - Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences of the National University of La Plata, Argentina)
• Andrea Andújar (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• daniel jones (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Nora Goren (Institute of Social Studies in Contexts of Inequalities-National University of José C. Paz, Argentina)
• Martha García Ortega (The College of the Southern Border – Mexico)
• Monica Gatica (National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Argentina)
• Pablo Ghigliani (Institute of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, National University of La Plata- CONICET, Argentina)
• Mariana Busso (Institute of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, National University of La Plata- CONICET, Argentina)
• Pablo Perez (Institute of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, National University of La Plata- CONICET, Argentina)
• Johanna Maldovan Bonelli (Workers' Innovation Center-CONICET-Metropolitan University for Education and Work-Arturo Jauretche National University, Argentina)
• Ana Elisa Arriaga (National University of Córdoba, Argentina)
• Tania Rodriguez (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Leticia Medina (General Secretary of CTA Córdoba - National University of Córdoba, Argentina)
• Marina Adamini (National University of the Center of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Mariana Fernández Massi (Institute of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, National University of La Plata- CONICET, Argentina)
• Florence Partenio (Arturo Jauretche National University, Argentina)

The program consists of 5 modules of weekly classes, each taught consecutively and linked to the others.
Total workload of 128 hours.

The modules that comprise the advanced diploma are: