Argentina

Organization responsible for the statistics

The statistics are collected, compiled and published by the Departamento de Estudios Laborales, Dirección Nacional de Recursos Humanos y Empleo, of the Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social.

Objectives and users

Not available.

Coverage

Strikes and lockouts

The statistics cover: Political or protest strikes, work stoppages initiated by employers, working to rule, go-slows and overtime bans are not included.

Minimum threshold: Duration of at least two hours.

Economic activities

The federal and provincial police are not covered.

Workers

Workers directly involved only.

Geographic areas

Whole country.

Types of data collected

No particular occupational groups are excluded.

Concepts and definitions

Collective labour dispute (conflicto colectivo de trabajo)

Any temporary work stoppage or disruption of work wilfully effected by a group of workers with a view to enforcing a demand.

Lockout

Any temporary work stoppage or disruption of work wilfully effected by one or more employers.

The source of these definitions is the Resolution concerning statistics of industrial disputes adopted by the Third International Conference of Labour Statisticians (1926), published in International recommendations on labour statistics (ILO, Geneva, 1975).

Methods of measurement

Strikes and lockouts

The basic unit of measurement used to record a strike is the economic unit (enterprise or establishment). A strike interrupted but later resumed within a period of one month, still due to the same case of dispute, is counted as a continuation of the same strike.

Work stoppages arising from the same case of dispute, occurring simultaneously in different establishments of the same enterprise are counted as one strike. Those resulting from the same case of dispute but occurring at different times in different establishments of the same enterprise are counted as one strike if they take place within the same month; otherwise these are counted as separate strikes. Stoppages arising from the same case of dispute, occurring simultaneously or at different times in establishments of different enterprises are counted as separate strikes.

Workers involved

The number of workers involved is the total employment in the economic units involved.

Duration

The duration is measured in workdays from the date the strike began in the first economic unit involved to the date it terminated in the last one.

Time not worked

Total time not worked is measured in workdays by ascertaining the total amount of time not worked on each day of the strike, and summing these totals.

Classifications

Cause of dispute

Type of dispute

Branch of economic activity

The data are classified by branch of economic activity using the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), 1968.

Reference period and periodicity

The statistics are compiled and published for periods of a month and a year. They refer to strikes beginning during the particular reference period plus those continuing from the previous period.

Analytical measures

None.

Historical background of the series

Not available.

Documentation

Series available

Not available.

Bibliographic references

Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social: Boletín de Estadísticas Laborales (quarterly).

Data published by the ILO

The number of strikes and lockouts, the number of workers involved and the number of days not worked.

Confidentiality

Not available.

International standards

Not available.

Methods of data collection

There is no legal obligation to report the occurrence of a strike. Information concerning strikes is obtained from press reports and reports from the Delegaciones Regionales of the Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social.