Transnational organizing: a case study of contract workers in the Colombian mining industry
Royle, Tony Cotton, E.
Royle, Tony
Cotton, E.
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This article examines recent organising successes in the Carbones del Cerrejón coal mine, reversing the organisational crisis of the Colombian mining union, Sintracarbon. Using Wever's concept of ‘field-enlarging strategies’, we argue that these events were facilitated by the dissemination of organising experiences between affiliates of a Global Union Federation, International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM), which recently merged to form IndustriALL. Additionally, we argue that this articulation between international and national unions, based on the principle of subsidiarity, was facilitated through sustained ICEM educational project activity, providing multiple entry points for Sintracarbon to operationalise its strategy and re-establish bargaining with multinational employers.
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Cotton, E. and Royle, T. (2014) Transnational organizing: a case study of contract workers in the Colombian mining industry, British Journal of Industrial Relations. 52(4): 705-724.
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