Abstract
This article proposes a critical analysis of the construction and representation mechanisms about the changes and modifications in the labor legislation, the conflicts and trade union dynamics in the context after the international crisis of 2008, by the main newspapers in Spain and Italy. Conceptually, the mass media are considered as political actor that influence what is possible to think and to say in each historical context; and not as "neutral" platforms where the discourses circulate. The questions that guide this study are: What happens to labor reforms and/or trade union conflicts when they are crossed or captured by the commercial logics of the mass communication industry? What are the social meanings that the concentrated media from countries assign to "strike", "unions", "labor" in contexts of crisis?
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