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This chapter seeks to understand the dynamics of cross-border alliances between workplace trade unions from Canada and South America. Its main objectives are twofold: first, to document the process through which unions build and develop alliances in the absence of transnational structures or mechanisms; second, to identify the conditions that foster and sustain relationships between workplace trade unions from different countries. The case studies under investigation here appear particularly interesting because the alliance was launched, developed and sustained on the initiative of work-place trade unions. This type of alliance constitutes a form of transnational trade unionism from below involving local actors. By local actors we mean workplace trade union representatives and staff from industrial unions who support and coordinate action at the plant level.